Synonyms

Krestor's Synonym API allows customers to define groups of terms that will be treated as equivalent by the Krestor search and autosuggest algorithms. As an example, a grocery customer could create a group of synonyms for fat-free milk: fat-free milk, 0% milk, skim milk. A user searching for fat-free milk, 0% milk or skim milk would see all products containing the phrases fat-free milk, 0% milk or skim milk.

Index-by-index

Synonyms are set on each index key separately, so a customer could have separate synonym rules with their grocery property and their electronics property.

Case Insensitive

Synonyms ignore case, so a synonym rule for fat-free milk would apply to McCormick's Farmstand Fat-Free Milk as well as McCormick's farmstand fat-free milk .

Exact Phrase Match

Synonyms match the exact word ordering, so a rule for 0% milk would not apply to products McCormick's Farmstand Milk 0% or McCormick's Farmstand 0% fat milk. To match these products, you'd need to include milk 0% or 0% fat milk synonyms in the group.

This approach is taken because intervening words and term order can influence meaning: as one example, a shirt dress is not equivalent to a dress shirt.

Transitive Within Group

All synonyms in a group are transitive. Fat-free searches return 0% milk and skim milk products, skim milk searches return 0% milk products and vice-versa.

However, a separate group containing non-fat milk and skim milk would not establish equivalence between non-fat milk and 0% milk by virtue of the separate group establishing the skim milk relationship.