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I am a Permanent Member (or Community Ambassador) of the Drupal Association.ApacheSolr search presentation from Do it With Drupal
Fri, 12/19/2008 - 19:47 — 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. My next talks on ApacheSolr will be at DrupalCamp Cologne in January, and DrupalCon in March. Here are the slides from New Orleans:
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Drupal plus non-Drupal sites?
Hi Robert,
I've enjoyed reading all the work you've done with search over the past couple years. I am aware that Solr can search multiple sites. What is not clear to me is whether the Drupal ApacheSolr module can be used to search both Drupal and non-Drupal sites. Can that be done?
My thoughts is that it would be nice to use Drupal with the ApacheSolor module as a search portal to for not just multiple Drupal sites but also non-Drupal sites.
Bryan
Can't be done yet
The problem is the schema.xml. It is very Drupal specific. Every time you broaden the mix you have to settle for a lower common denominator. Already the facets available to multisite search are fewer and less exact than the facets available to single site search, and if we mixed say Wordpress sites and Drupal sites in the index, the schema that supports both of them would be even less precise. If you start throwing any arbitrary site into it, you've got the same index Google does. So, I can see a time when one would use Nutch to crawl a static site, and a WordpressSolr module to index WP, but the coolness factor of facets etc. will vanish.
-Rob
Coolness is important
Thanks Rob. The "search project" I have in mind is behind the firewall on the intranet side of the house side where we have multiple intranet servers in various locations.
The use of Solr may not be what we're looking for as a solution for our various web applications. However, I have persuaded a number of our field offices to use Drupal for their intranet...so perhaps there is opportunity for me to witness the coolness factor you're talking about.
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