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Views 3 + Apache Solr + Acquia Drupal = The Future of Search

Posted on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 12:31 by Robert Douglass

For the last six months, Scott Reynolds has been keeping a big juicy secret. As the maintainer of the Apache Solr Views module, he knows just how cool the future of Drupal Search is going to be. His module, based on an idea and code from Thomas Seidl, lets you make custom searches against the Solr index the same way you currently make views against the MySQL database.

ApacheSolr search presentation from Do it With Drupal

Posted on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 11:47 by Robert Douglass

Last week Acquia sent me to New Orleans to be a speaker at Lullabot's Do it With Drupal conference. The conference went very well and I gave a presentation about ApacheSolr, and how faceted search will change the way you think about finding things on your site. Since Acquia recently announced that we will be launching a hosted Solr search service even more people have shown interest in ApacheSolr.

The Google iPhone voice app angle that no one is talking about

Posted on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 08:41 by Jeff Whatcott

I checked out the new voice-activated Google Mobile App for iPhone this morning. It works pretty well - not perfect - but solid.

Hosted Solr site search for Drupal is on the way

Posted on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 03:32 by jay

The search technology area is highly important to people with websites. As a result, I've spent serious time looking at it. Several things have come from this time spent:

The important thing: We'll soon be adding "hosted site search" capabilities to the Acquia Network for our subscribers. More about this below.

Drupal's search compared to Google and Yahoo!

Posted on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 13:06 by Robert Douglass

When Drupal does a content search, it optionally weighs the results using up to four scoring factors. These scoring factors include keyword relevancy, recency of the content, number of comments, and (if statistics module is enabled), the number of page views. Site administrators can adjust the relative weighting of these scoring factors from the example.com/admin/settings/search administration page. Setting any scoring factor to zero disables it.

In this article, which applies primarily to Drupal 6 but is relevant for Drupal 5 as well, I explore how useful these scoring factors really are, and whether they help Drupal search live up to the high standards that are set by leaders like Google and Yahoo!. This article is part of a series of search related articles in preparation for the Minnesota Search Sprint.