Shoppers don't type the way your products are listed. They type fast, skip accents, make typos or describe what they want. ThunderBar finds the right product in all of these cases.
Products appear from the first letter, in a dropdown with categories, photos, prices and stock. Shoppers don't need to press Enter or wait for a new page, so they see straight away whether you have what they want.
Classic search only finds products that contain the words typed. ThunderBar runs two searches at the same time: one that finds the exact words and one, powered by AI, that understands what the search means. The results are merged into one list, most relevant first.
One wrong letter should not mean "0 results". ThunderBar tolerates small typos, adjusting tolerance to the length of the word. When a word does not exist in your catalogue at all, it suggests the right one from your own store's vocabulary, and the shopper picks it with one click.
Most people type on their phone without accents or in capitals, and in whatever grammatical case comes naturally. ThunderBar ignores accents and capitals everywhere it searches (title, description, tags, category, brand), whether the shopper typed them or not, and recognises the stem of each word, so singular, plural and every case bring the same products.
Many shoppers type Greek words in Latin characters or forget their keyboard is set to English. ThunderBar converts Greeklish to Greek and detects the wrong keyboard layout, and tells the shopper what it searched for. It also finds brand names typed in Greek letters, e.g. "νικε" → Nike.
Shoppers can type the way they talk. ThunderBar finds the product, who it is for, the price, size and colour, and shows above the results what it understood, with ✕ to remove anything. On Pro plans and above, free-form sentences are also interpreted with AI.
Every industry has its own words. From your dashboard you define groups of words that mean the same thing, and search treats them as one.
Trade customers and your support team often search by code. ThunderBar finds products by SKU, model, EAN, UPC, JAN, ISBN and MPN, and puts that exact product first.
When a shopper types a model, code or brand that your store has, they see only that, not something that is merely spelled alike. When the model is not in your store, we say so clearly and show the closest products. If a phrase matches no product as a whole, we keep the model, brand and product type and leave out colours and general words first.
The word the shopper typed is highlighted in every product title, even if it was typed without accents. It is immediately clear why each result appeared.
When search opens, shoppers see their recent searches and your store's popular ones. Popular searches come automatically from your analytics or you set them yourself, together with a campaign banner and featured products.
On mobile many people prefer to speak. With the microphone button shoppers say what they want and results appear instantly. The button only shows in browsers that support it.
The search window and results page are available in Greek, English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. The language is chosen automatically from your store's language. If your store has translations, visitors also see titles and categories in the language they have chosen.
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