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AGENDA Me and my company ‘Powerful Search’ - Examples Search 'as-is' in Drupal today Lucene API Apache Solr Quick Demo Questions ?????

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‘Me’

My villageHUZURABAD

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More about ‘Me’

• I build applications on Drupal• I am an active contributor of code on

Drupal, jQuery and PHP communities• One of my projects, a real-time

collaboration suite was showcased at TechCrunch 50 in SF

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Powerful Search Implementations onDrupal

Some Drupal sites that leverage ‘Search’

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Importance of Search

Drupal is a Social publishing platform. Content is the king.

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Drupal Navigation is not enough

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Taxonomy is not enough either!

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4 clicks to accessRequired page

Home > Plugins > Forms > Ajax Fancy Captcha

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Power of Search• With Google, I can reach a required page with

two clicks (one click with 'instant on')

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Drupal Search Results

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Google Search result

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Advanced Search in Drupal?

It is really hard to fill all those details To get relevant content

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Why Drupal needs better ‘Search’!

Too Fast! Too Smart! Trustworthy!

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So…how to make Search really ‘Smart’ , ‘Fast’ &

‘Trustworthy’!Let’s figure out.

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Faceted Search

Sortable

Faceted

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Spelling Suggestions

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Field Boosting

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Recommendations

Related Posts

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So…how we do it in DRUPAL!

Here we go…

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On Drupal…

Search Lucene API – Uses Zend Framework's PHP port of Lucene

Apache Solr Search Integration – Integrates with Apache Solr search platform

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When Lucene?

Good for mid-scale sites (< 5K nodes) Inbuilt Faceted Search & Field Boosting Support to extend search to other fields Supports content recommendations Supports spelling suggestions

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When Solr?

Good for large volume sites Has all features supported by

Lucene Distributed: Supports multiple clients API to modify search and display

behavior Supported by Engineers at Acquia Do-It-Yourself or use Acquia Search

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Extensions to Solr

• Apache Solr Views integration• Multi-site search• Local Solr (Geospacial search)• Apache Solr Ubercart• Webmail Plus• Solr Service & Apache Solr Stats. Solr

Autocomplete, Solr Ajax, Apache Solr Biblio, Simple Geo, Node displays…etc.

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Extensions to Lucene

Search Lucene DidYouMean Search Lucene MoreLikeThis Search Lucene CCK Search Lucene OG Search Lucene Biblio Search Lucene API node filter Search Lucene Internationalization Search Lucene Tagcloud

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DemoDemo Time

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Questions?Questions for me?

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