I am trying to implement synonym searching in the Examine search engine that comes with Umbraco 8 out of the box.
Does anyone have any experience with implementing synonym searching in Examine/Umbraco 8. The options that I have been considering after looking around are -
- A package that can be installed in Umbraco 8 that offers this extended functionality (if one exists).
- Implementing a custom index (currently just using the out of the box 'ExternalIndex') that somehow implements synonym searching in the analysis (via custom analyzer implementation etc - If that is even possible).
- Manually formatting multiple search terms by checking for synonyms in the string beforehand, running all searches and consolidating the results after (really a nasty, last resort option - you don't have to tell me how bad this is, I already know).
I have been trawling around the forums for a definitive answer on this and cannot really find one. Essentially I want to stick with the Examine engine for simplicity, however I am starting to think that the best way to achieve what I am after would be to move to a new engine completely (elastic search for example).
Many thanks in advance.
