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Friday, September 01, 2006

Google Mini X-Cart integration released

The number one item in 2005, "Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design" according to Usability Expert, Jakob Nielsen is that Search has become the quintessential element used on the web for customers/users trying to find exactly what they are searching for.

X-Cart's internal Search capabilities are not very up to date. As of Version 4.1.x OR logic was finally implemented. Something that has been around for ages. X-Cart's search has no Spelling Suggestions, no Stop Words, no Automatic Punctuation Removal, no Ranking, no Synonyms, the list goes on and on that today's search users expect of their search queries. The only time X-Cart's search is even useful is if you know exactly what your looking for. Variations will not do the trick, "AcmeWidget" and "Acme Widget" will return two different sets of results. X-Cart's search will also ONLY search over products of your X-Cart store, ignoring Any static pages, or even other integrated systems such as a forum or support system, like phpBB and Kayako, for example.

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Cart-Lab.com: X-cart Resources, and More!

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