Our featured clients show a varied cross-section of Netaphor Search implementations. These illustrate the power, flexibility and range of functions offered by Netaphor Search.
Photographer Jill Furmanovsky registered a website called rockarchive.com in 1998. The idea behind it was to make her work, and that of other rock photographers and visual artists, more accessible to fans and collectors.
RockArchive.com uses Netaphor's hosted search platform and utilised our PHP search framework to quickly develop both the search and browse interfaces in just a few days.
Check out the live site: www.rockarchive.com
Full text search across all RockArchives.com's prints including those in the forthcoming Marketplace.
Users have the ability to narrow using a number of different filtering options including range options like price
See an example: A search for "Rolling Stones"
Explore the entire range of photographs using the metadata used to describe them.
See an example: "Rock" prints
The flexibility of Netaphor search allowed the designers complete freedom to design a layout in any way they liked. Use of images and metadata really add to the richness of the search experience.
The browse and search interfaces use different layouts each optimised for a particular use-case.
Check out the live site: www.rockarchive.com
There are a range of controls that users can use to taylor their user experience. The default values and options available automatically adjust to user behaviour.
Check out the live site: www.rockarchive.com
The metadata of the prints is used to suggest relevant search terms to users as they type in their query. This improves the discoverability of content and ultimately can lead to more sales.
Check out the live site: www.rockarchive.com
Spelling correction helps users forumlate a useful query, reducing dead-end searches and increasing the number of successful searches
Check out the live site: www.rockarchive.com
Authentics is a distributer and retailer of contemporary modern furniture and interior accessories. We worked closely with the design agency Dewsign to create a dynamic, consistent and slick eCommerce website. The Authentics website uses our hosted services by directly integrating Dewsign's content management and eCommerce solution using our PHP search connector
Check out the live site: www.authentics.co.uk
Full text search across all Authentic's products with the ability to narrow using a number of different filtering options including options with a range of values like price
See an example: A search for "bathroom"
The flexibility of Netaphor search allowed the designers complete freedom to design a layout in any way they liked without worrying about technical limitations or complex configuration
All the navigation pages are generated by the Netaphor search and are generated using dynamic search queries. The results in any given section can be easily changed by tuning the query used to generate the results list. Clicking on the top level filtering options all result in informative, SEO-friendly results.
See an example: The "Living Room" category
A dynamic sub-category page www.authentics.co.uk/Livingroom/Magazine-Rack
Product pages use dynamically generated queries to recommend similar or alternative products. Content pages on the site also use the Netaphor search to display featured products
See an example: "You May Also Like" suggestions
Authentics' Designers page dynamically lists all of the products created by that designer
See an example: Designer Products
Principal is a UK-leading independent provider of managed print and IT services – for commercial, professional and Not-for-Profit organisations
Check out the live site: www.principalcorp.co.uk
Not all products are equal, we applied a bias to the certain types of products so that they appeared higher in the results lists ensuring the key products were returned higher up the results list
Check out the live site: www.principalcorp.co.uk
We applied an additional level of text analayis to the product codes so that a user could type just a small part of a product code and still get valid results
Check out the live site: www.principalcorp.co.uk
By using the metadata returned by the search engine we were able to format the search results in exactly the way the client needed. By highlighting key product information we helped users quickly make informed decisions about which results were relevant and whethere they should further refine their results
Check out the live site: www.principalcorp.co.uk
We implemented a super-fast results suggestion widget written in JavaScript to the search box allowing user to reach results faster
Check out the live site: www.principalcorp.co.uk
