The Best Magento Extensions For Improved Catalog Search

Every e-commerce site needs a great searching tool. By installing the correct extension you will provide your visitors with the ability to easily navigate and find the content they are looking for. Add a fast and friendly search to your ecommerce store with one of the best improved catalog search Magento extensions. The best solutions are described below.

The Best eCommerce Search Engines

Magento 2 Extensions for Improved Catalog Search

Improved Catalog Search by Firebear

With this extension you will improve the default catalog search of your Magento store with some core changes. As a result, your visitors will get the ability to receive more relevant search results. The extension costs $40 and you can find it on both our site and Magento Connect.

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Search Sphinx Ultimate

You can also improve the search quality of your store with Search Sphinx Ultimate by Mirasvit. The extension supports up to 665 stop words, and understands more than 60 thousand synonyms. Search Sphinx Ultimate supports search by category names, tags, and associated products SKUs. The module costs $149.

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Advanced Sphinx Search Pro

This is another solution by mirasvit. It relies on Google-like search syntax and supports product attributes weighting. Advanced Sphinx Search Pro has a lot of common features with Search Sphinx Ultimate, but it costs $99. Hit the below link for the additional information.

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Advanced Search by AheadWorks

By installing this extension on your Magento store, you will replaces a native search engine with an external one, which is called Sphinx. As a result you will get a faster search, a decreased server load, and more trustworthy results. The module costs $199. Hit the below link for the additional information.

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Search AutoComplete

Add a user friendly search to your Magento e-commerce store with Search AutoComplete extension. It detects what your customers are typing and suggests relevant results. With search AutoComplete you will also get AJAX-based pop-up and many other useful additions. You can download Search AutoComplete for 79$.

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Search Autocomplete and Suggest by aheadWorks

By installing this module, you will provide your customers with the most relevant search results after the 3rd character is entered. With the dropdown list, the extension make it extremely easy to navigate through a product list passing the search result pages. Search Autocomplete and Suggest by aheadWorks costs $99.

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InstantSearch

This extension provides your customers with more advanced serch. It allows your visitors to search for text, products, and images. In addition, you will get a reporting tool designed to show you what users are searching for on your Magento store. there are 5 pricing plans starting at $0.

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Google Custom Search Pro

With this module you will make your store more search engine friendly. Provide your customers with more advanced searching tool and improve SEO of your Magento site. Additionally, you will get the ability to import and export product positions for related products, cross-sell and up-sell. You can get all this features for just $25.99.

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Vubla Search Engine

Add a Vubla Search Engine to your Magento store. The extension works only with a dedicated Vubla account, but it adds a more powerful searching tool to your e-commerce site. You customers will be able to search the whole site. They will also get the most relevant content. In addition, you will be able to add some specific products to the search results to boost their sales. The extension is free, but the service works on monthly subscription basis.

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Catalog Search Refinement

This module improves default Magento search with some core fixes. As a result, your site relies on all keywords from a multiple words search request instead of any. This extension plays a role of quotes in a Google search. Catalog Search Refinement is absolutely free.

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Amazon CloudSearch Connect

This module is designed to integrate your Magento store with Amazon Cloudsearch. By installing it, you will add a performance provided by Amazon to your e-commerce store. The core features of Amazon Cloudsearch Connect are: Enhanced Attribute Configuration, Relevancy Management, One-button reindexing capabilities, and others. The extension costs $599.

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Managed Elasticsearch

Managed Elasticsearch Magento extension is based on the Apache Lucene. It provides one of the most powerful full text search options available for open source products. With the extension, you can manipulate search results with ease. Moreover, Managed Elasticsearch configures attribute names, descriptions, short descriptions, and skus as searcheble attributes. Hit the below link for other features and pricing.

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Blast Search Autocomplete and suggest

With this solution you will get some new caching options, designed to reduce server load. The extension is ajax based, and it can load up to ten categories and matched products. The good news is that it requires no external javascript files. The extension is extremely easy to install and you can download it for just $49.

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Search Autocomplete and Suggest

This is another solution based on AJAX. It shows top products suggested and displays dedicated images. Search Autocomplete and Suggest is a pure javascript and CSS solution, which has an easy customizable layout. You can download this module for free.

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Search Autocomplete + Search Suggest

This highly customizable widget adds search suggest and autocomplete features for your e-commerce store. The solution is free for Magento stores with up to 250 products. Hit the below link for the additional information.

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Magento Ajax Search And Autocomplete extension

This extension is designed to help your customers to find what they are looking for. The module improves Magento default search with the ajax autocomplete. Additionally, your  visitors will be able to see suggested products right after they type first several letters. The extension coasts just $29.

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Solr Integration with Magento

Solar is a search platform famous for dynamic clustering, database integration, hit highlighting, rich document handling, full-text, faceted and geospatial search, as well as other useful features. Below, you will find two most popular solutions for it’s integration with Magento.

Solr Bridge Search

By installing Solr Bridge Search Magento Extension, you will be able to enhance the existing search capabilities of your ecommerce store with such important features as faceted search, spellcheck, autosuggestions, and MongoDb integration. Solr Bridge Search provides seamless integration of Solr with Magento. The extension costs €450.

Solr Bridge Search Magento Integration

Magento Solarium

If you think that the above solution is too expensive, we recommend you to check

Magento Solarium module. It also integrates your ecommerce Magento store with Solr platform. Since it is an open source project, you can download it for free.

Download Magento Solarium from Github

In addition, you can check the official FAQ on using Magento and Solr.