Abstract: Queries against search engines like the Google Search Appliance, Elastic Search and other readily available search engines to provide meaningful content for the purpose of supporting eCommerce websites. In particular, methods that provide for an intelligent abstraction to know when and how to generate a set of queries, the set of queries including one or more queries that are relevant to the searchable content are disclosed. In addition, the methods also can determine if a query against the search engine is even required and may redirect the use to other dynamic or static content outside the search index utilized by the search engine to satisfy the queries.

Abstract: A method for optimizing identification and access to product records in a product database, the method executed as a set of stored instructions by a computer processor to implement the steps of: receiving over a communications network textual information representing a potential portion of multiple different words or phrases, the textual information being a sequence of characters; searching metadata of each of a set of product listings stored in the product database for one or more of said multiple different words or phrases in the metadata matching the sequence of characters by having the sequence of characters included as a portion of the one or more of said multiple different words or phrases; executing a search query against the set of product listings using the one or more of said multiple different words or phrases to return a query search result containing a plurality of product listings matching the search query; selecting a product listing subset from the query search result, each product listing in