What do people see when a search finds no results in Joomla search component? A simply present a prominent message indicating that nothing was found. However, there are ways to enhance even these pages with some useful information.
Because it was quite a difficult task to make the system, which could suggest alternate spellings. We have to reach for the simpler, but also useful solution. I think it interesting, but a simple idea to add some extra information – where the system could not find searched phrase or word. Under “Total: 0 results found.” info add the following information:
Suggestions to improve your search results:
- Check your spelling.
- Try a similar keyword, for example: tablet instead of laptop.
- Try using more than one keyword.
This solution uses a few well-known websites. You can also add below Popular or standard Tag Cloud module, which could help people to search right.
Search Suggest Module
To facilitate the search page, use one of the available modules are searching in realtime mode. The smaller the delay in presenting the results of the better (and more convenient) for person seeking. If the user pastes a phrase into the search box, it will just display the results instantly while typing in an inputbox. You will find this kind of solution on JED in Site Search section.