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• danfinney

  Posted on Feb 3, 2009 (permalink)

  Is there any way to create search synonyms?  For instance if you name your page "Site Photos" and someone searches for "site images" or "site pictures," is there any way to relate those terms?
  
  Other examples:  cap, hat
  sweater, shirt, tshirt, t-shirt, tee shirt
  dog, puppy, canine, puppies
  
  
  Also, is there a way to give higher importance for a search to specific pages? For instance if the natural search results for "site photos" shows you 20 photo pages, can I specify the most important result is the main "Site Photos" page?
  

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Feb 5, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Dan,
  
  Sitefinity is using Lucene.Net engine for the Search functionality. Lucene.Net itself could be extended to support this:
  

  • How to have synonyms in Lucene.Net
  • Code Project: Lucene.Net – Custom Synonym Analyzer

  Having that said, you should extend the Lucene engine and create your own search provider that works with the extended class.
  
  I hope this helps.
  Sincerely yours,
  Georgi
  the Telerik team

  
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