Faceted search

Filters shoppers narrow by — price, brand, size — shown as live counts next to the results they'd produce.

Facets are the filterable, countable side of a collection's schema: mark a field facetable and every search response returns not just hits but how many results each value of that field would leave, computed for the current query and any filters already applied.

This is what turns a search box into a browse page: category listings, faceted navigation and “refine your search” panels all read from the same facet counts a text query would, so a shopper narrowing by brand and then price sees numbers that always match what clicking through actually returns.

In AACSearch

Faceted search

Test AACSearch on your own problem

The best way to evaluate a search platform isn't reading one more comparison table.

Upload your own data.
Run real queries.
Look at the Query Trace.
Compare relevance.
Work out the cost.

Only then make the decision.

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