Smart Did You Mean

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Description

We also support Smart Did-You-Mean functionality out of the box, with some neat helper functions. If you do not know what Smart Did-You-Mean is or how it works, please refer to the FINDOLOGIC Documentation about Smart Did-You-Mean.

Implementation

To implement Smart Did-You-Mean, you only need the tirade of functions.

• getType(): Returns the type of the query. Either improved or corrected.
• getOriginalQuery(): The original query from the XML response.
• getAlternativeQuery(): If it was a did you mean suggestion, returns the didYouMeanQuery, otherwise take the queryString.