Benefits

Acquia Search provides high performance tools to expose the wealth of content available throughout your site and enables visitors to navigate directly to the content most relevant to their search. Additionally, the More Like This capability offers visitors a dynamic list of recommended content to keep them clicking around your site to related content that matches their interest.

Visitor Benefits

Fast: Dynamic facets enable visitors to navigate directly to the results that interest them, eliminating the need to scroll blindly through result pages to find that needle in the haystack.
Easy: Acquia Search is designed to eliminate confusing and complicated "advanced search" options when a visitor conducts a search, simplifying the up-front experience and focusing visitors on the results.
Useful: Withdynamic result filters and the More Like This feature, Acquia Search exposes valuable site content that visitors may not otherwise find.

Site Administrator Benefits

Simple: Built on the open source Lucene and Solr distributions from the Apache project, Acquia Search delivers powerful capabilities as an on-demand hosted service - no hardware to purchase, no Java applications to manage, no servers to maintain and update. Install the Acquia Search modules on your site, connect to the Acquia Network and that's it.
Secure: Your site's data is SSL encrypted in transit and by HMAC authentication in the Acquia Network, ensuring the integrity of your data and the authenticity of requests between your site and Acquia Search servers.
Better Performance: Not only does Acquia Search make content easier to find on your site, its high performance cloud-based infrastructure returns search results faster than Drupal core search, as much as 16x faster.
Lower cost: Your visitors expect search results to be delivered fast. By delivering Acquia Search as a hosted service, we are able to deliver a more reliable, high performance experience than if you built and maintained the servers yourself.