Searchblox Uses ElasticSearch to Power Multilingual Search
December 3, 2014
The article titled Multilingual Search—Easy to Setup and Manage For Your Website on Searchblox discusses the difficulty of multilingual search. If you think search in English only is complicated enough, consider global corporations that must make search possible in any number of languages, all with their own sets of synonyms and double meanings. Cross-language search is particularly difficult, given that the existence of terms that have different meanings in different languages (occasionally with hilarious results.) The article explains,
“SearchBlox provides a simple solution that takes care of setting up search for non-english languages and supports 25+ languages out-of-the-box. Each collection is tied to a specific language which enables you to tune the stop words, synonyms and meta data handling without complicated configuration. SearchBlox lets you search across multiple languages at the same time and display them together taking out the complexities of handling encoding. SearchBlox lets you index multilingual documents like word, pdf, excel and ppt files…”
SearchBlox uses Elasticsearch as an engine. The article lists all of the languages supported by Searchblox, from Arabic and Bengali to Kannada, Slovak, Romanian and Telugu all the way down to Thai and Turkish. Encoding and displaying search results has always been a challenge in multiple languages, but Searchblox guarantees full search capabilities in the whole list of languages.
Chelsea Kerwin, December 03, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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