UpStart Commerce Search
Spell Correction
5min
welcome to the spell correction feature within the nochannel search this guide provides detailed instructions on leveraging this feature to ensure accurate search results, thereby improving user experience, and driving sales conversion why does spell correction matter? accurate search results are essential for customer satisfaction and business success in the retail sector misspelled search queries and text often lead to frustration and abandoned searches by employing the spell correction, businesses can mitigate these issues, ensuring users find what they seek promptly impact of spell correction let's consider a scenario a customer is searching for "furnitre" on your website without spell correction, they might get frustrated and leave, never finding the "furniture" they need this can result in lost sales opportunities and a negative impact on your brand image spell correction helps in two key ways 1\) improved customer experience when customers mistype, spell correction suggests the correct word, guiding them to the products they want faster this leads to happier customers and potentially higher sales for example, a customer searching for "driss" will receive suggestions for "dress" enhancing their search experience 2\) enhanced search precision unsegmented text affects the precision and recall of search results imagine the frustration of searching for something and not finding it, even though it's on your website spell correction helps divide strings into meaningful words, enabling accurate search indexing; hence, eliminating this frustration, and allowing customers to browse more freely and potentially discover other products they might like think of it like this… your website is like a giant store spell correction is like having helpful assistants who understand what customers are looking for, even if they don't spell it perfectly in another example, let's say a user searches for "bras char" on a website this combines two misspelled words as a search query nochannel search's spell check, unlike a traditional dictionary, understands that this is likely a typo "bras char" won't be found in the website's custom dictionary built from its content after analysis, nochannel search suggests "brass chair" as the most likely intended search query this approach helps users find the information they're looking for even when they make typos specific to how terms are used on the website unlike a traditional spell checker that might suggest unrelated single words ("brass," or "chair"), nochannel search leverages the website's content to provide the most relevant correction why choose spell correction? accurate it understands complex typos and suggests the most relevant products, even if the misspelling is significant faster searches customers find what they need quicker, leading to a more enjoyable shopping experience easy to implement no need for complex technical knowledge simply activate the feature through your existing platform