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Query Suggestions for Search Feature on B2B eCommerce Site

TLDR arif needed guidance on implementing query suggestions for a B2B eCommerce website. Jason suggested using Typesense's native search query tracking. After some setup and discussion about delays, it was confirmed the system was working correctly.

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Jul 17, 2023 (4 months ago)

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arif

09:04 AM

Hi, so far this channel has been very helpful. Thanks a lot.

I need another suggestion regarding Query Suggestions. My site has a large number of pages and a global Search field/widget on top of each page. The requirement is to show popular/relevant search terms/query and actual results of different types in a drop-down list. Showing search result-as-you-type is not applicable for our use-case. What'd be the most effective approach to have meaningful query suggestions along with the categorized results?

One solution comes to mind is to have a secondary index for queries submitted by the users. But this approach unreliable as someone can insert irrelevant/garbage queries in the index. So it does not seems suitable.
Please suggest some standard Typesense solution.

Please note that the search feature is very important as the website is a B2B enterprise eCommerce. So garbage/irrelevant suggestions won't be acceptable.

Thanks!

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Jason

07:44 PM

We’ve added the ability for Typesense to track search queries natively if you want to give it a shot: https://gist.github.com/jasonbosco/0c49916fc2e7a54f30d961aac111cf4a

Jul 18, 2023 (4 months ago)

arif

06:18 AM

Thanks!

06:24

arif

06:24 AM

Our Typesense cluster version is of v0.25.0.rc32. If we upgrade to 0.25.0.rc52, we'd get the extra collection Out-of-the-box. And we'd be able to query on this collection onward, right? Or should we also prepare the analytics rule first?

Jason

04:47 PM

After the upgrade, you would have to first create the analytics collection, then setup the analytics rule, and then search terms will show up in the analytics collection you created

Jul 26, 2023 (4 months ago)

arif

09:55 AM

The analytics collection is missing some search teams. Is this somehow expected? Or Should I check something?
And I don't think I have ever seen any documentation for the Analytics Rules. If there is any, could you please share the link?

09:59

arif

09:59 AM

Note - the following changes have been made.
1. We have upgraded the cluster to v0.25.0.rc53.
2. A new collection has been created with name top_queries
3. A rule has been created as well.

{
  "rules": [
    {
      "name": "top_queries",
      "params": {
        "destination": {
          "collection": "top_queries"
        },
        "limit": 1000,
        "source": {
          "collections": [
            "name_of_the_collection_containing_actual_data"
          ]
        }
      },
      "type": "popular_queries"
    }
  ]
}

Did I miss anything?

10:04

arif

10:04 AM

And is there any delay expected for the queries to show up in the analytics collection?

Jason

04:30 PM

This is the only docs at the moment: https://typesense-community.slack.com/archives/C01P749MET0/p1689623051117489?thread_ts=1689584645.886149&cid=C01P749MET0

Could you DM me your cluster ID? I can check if everything was setup properly on our side

Jul 27, 2023 (4 months ago)

arif

08:43 AM

Sent it to your inbox. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks!

Jason

06:57 PM

Looks like everything is setup correctly and I do see search terms being logged in your top queries collection…

06:57

Jason

06:57 PM

There is a delay of 5 minutes between the time a query is typed and when it shows up in the top queries collection though… Could it be that?

Jul 28, 2023 (4 months ago)

arif

07:04 AM

According to my observations, some queries never show up in the top queries collection.
Would you provide any details about the delay? I think sometimes queries show up almost instantly. Is it some kind of max delay?

Jason

07:50 PM

Yeah, it’s a max delay. There’s a 5 minute timer that’s running and it aggregates all search terms in the last 5 minutes

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