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Drupal Search: How indexing works
Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008 by Robert Douglass RSS
This article explores the process of taking HTML content from Drupal nodes and indexing it for the purpose of search and text retrieval at a later time. The code examples apply to Drupal 6.
Finding what to index
Indexing happens when cron.php is run, and the search module starts the whole process by invoking hook_update_index. This gives each module the chance to keep its search index needs up to date. This article follows what happens in the node module's ... More
Acquia selected as Finalist for 2008 MITX Technology Awards
Acquia has been selected as a finalist in the Collaboration and Social Networking category for the 2008 MITX Technology Awards. This is the fifth year MITX has offered the awards to recognize innovative companies and technologies in the New England region across nine categories:
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Collaboration & Social Networking
Content Management & Search
Data Management
Data Protection
Enterprise Technologies
Marketing/Customer
Relationship Technologies
Mobile
Video
The selection process... More
Minnesota Search Sprint: Your top-five feature requests
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 by Robert Douglass RSS
In the same way that the Internet itself would not have achieved greatness without the ability to search it easily and efficiently, Drupal's greatness will always be tied directly to the effectiveness of its core search solution. Improving core search for Drupal 7 will be no small task, however. The current implementation is both elegant but complex, robust yet inflexible. The seven coders participating in the Minnesota Search Sprint this weekend have a great challenge as well as a great opportunity. Here are some of the... More
My Marketing Toolbox
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott RSS
Today I participated in the Sigma Partners VP of Marketing Summit for their portfolio companies. Roger Krakoff asked Gitti Crowley of HiWired and I to lead a discussion about online marketing best practices. In that discussion, I talked a little about a few marketing tools that we use and/or plan to use at Acquia and agreed to share links to the resources we discussed. Here's the rundown.
Drupal... More
50 Drupal Newspaper and magazine showcase video from Newstools 2008
Last week I helped organize Drupal day at Newstools 2008. At our peak, we had 65 journalist in the room and 35 watching online. We had several presentations:
* Introducing Drupal for Newspapers
* Showcase video (shown below)
* Jose Zamora on the Knight Drupal initiative
* Neil Drumm's presentation of mashing-up congressional voting records with campaign... More
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