Hi Edwin — I am contemplating enabling Joomla's Smart Search feature for use on one of my Slave sites.

In my installation, each slave site has its own separate database. We are running Joomla 3.4.3, on the latest full version of JMS.

We want to create a custom Smart Search plugin to allow that slave site to have "predictive search" features, providing a pull-down menu of available alternatives to a search word entered, much like Google is providing alternate search words or phrases.

Would Smart Search work well within my particular JMS environment? Would there be any performance issues?

Your thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Currently, there is NO multisite smart search.

We have the "Multisites Search Plugin" that use the normal search (form) that is able to search into a list of website and provide the answer that can be compatible with the "Article Sharing for JMS" or redirect the user to their specific site (to avoid duplicated content).

This is not really a problem of performance but a problem to merge the results from differents sites with multiple DB connection and all that via an ajax call.

For the moment, we didn't developed such "Multisites Smart Search plugin".
We notice this is something that is whished.