Turbocharge your Search API Solr Search setup - free webinar 12/6
In this webinar Thomas Seidl (aka Drunkenmonkey) will show how you can turbocharge your Search API Solr Search setup with Visitors Voice Free - a new SaaS that lets you add, remove and reorder the hits exactly the way you want them. Thomas will also answer to questions you might have regarding Search API in general.
Read moreInserting or prioritizing results (or actions) for specific searches
I am using Drupal 6 and I'm looking to answer two questions. First, the scenario:
I have a project where there are a handful of search terms that we want to "take control of" and insert logic to either prioritize results or redirect users off of the search page and onto a specific page. For most other searches, we just let the Drupal search process continue as normal.
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Comparison of search result options
We use different search solutions on a variety of our drupal sites. Some use Solr, some use core, some use Lucene, and some use Google search.
Half of me thinks that search should be "in house" and half of me thinks using outside sources like google for searching is the way to go. I know there is really "no one size fits all", and no "the only right way" but I want to pick one side and go with it.
One advantage of using search in house is you have complete control over how the search results look. But it also uses more resources.
Read more[DELETE, please]Search results ordered by a particular field
EDIT: I realized this, probably, isn't the way g.d.o works and moved my question to the forum (http://drupal.org/node/698770).
Read morehow to change the url of the search/type/keyword to eg: racktype/keyword
how to change the url of the search/type/keyword to eg: racktype/keyword
Read moreIntroducing Search Lucene API 2.0
My name is Chris Pliakas, and I am the author of the Search Lucene API module. Although the project has been around for a little while, 2.0 development is coming to a close and I think it is the appropriate time to make the Drupal community aware of it's existence.
Read moreWashington DC Search talks
Is anybody going to give an apachesolr talk at Washington DC Drupalcon?
Earnest Berry, Robert Douglass, Chad Fennell, Doug Green, Michael Hess, Djun Kim, David Lesieur, Blake Luchessi, Jacob Singh, Thomas Seidl?
I will add a session on distributed search and apachesolr, but feel free to join, or run the session.
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Current list of proposed sessions on search at Washington DC Drupalcon as of Oct 31, 2008:
* Xapian Search (3 votes)
Multiple Stemmers seem to conflict
We have a multilingual website providing German, English, French and Italian content on a Drupal 5 instance.
We used to use Drupal's internal search and had many issues about terms that were not found. I found, that the problems might be solved using stemming.
So i installed stemmer for all the languages: porterstemmer, de_stemmer, ...