Autocomplete helps customers quickly find what they’re looking for by suggesting relevant terms, products, and content as they type. It improves the user experience by reducing typing effort, preventing misspellings, and surfacing high-converting results instantly.
What Autocomplete includes
As customers start typing in the search bar, they immediately get a number of suggestions in the autocomplete dropdown. The structure of the dropdown, including the grouping and the ranking, is generated by Voyado Product Discovery. The suggestions all come from Product Discovery, and include:
- Phrase suggestions: Commonly searched terms that help complete the user’s input.
- Product suggestions: Matching items, often displayed with product names, prices, and images.
- Trending searches: Popular terms shown when the search field is empty.
- Recent searches: Personal search history for identified visitors.
- Content searches: User guides and help articles.
Autocorrect and “Did you mean” suggestions
To ensure that even imperfect inputs return relevant content for the customer, the product discovery engine automatically corrects typos and suggests alternatives using "Did you mean" logic. In practice, this means that if a customer types a misspelled or incomplete query, autocomplete can:
- Autocorrect it and automatically display matching results
- Offer alternative suggestions using “Did you mean…” links to steer the customer in the right direction
What is powered by Product Discovery?
The following functionality is returned in a single response from Product Discovery and rendered by your website frontend:
- All suggestions (products, categories, brands, content, phrases)
- Autocorrect and Did-you-mean logic
- Trending and recent searches
- The structure of the dropdown, including how content is grouped and ranked