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    1. Advanced searching with Views and ApacheSolr Robert Douglass December 12, 2008 Do It With Drupal © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    2. The search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    3. The search box It has revolutionized the Internet by taking an impossibly large result set and making it manageable. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    4. The search box Ye Ol’ Internets © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    5. The search box Drupal Drupal © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    6. The search box Drupal ponies Drupal ponies © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    7. The search box Drupal ponies bacon bacon Drupal ponies © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    8. The search box Drupal ponies bacon bacon Drupal ponies Jeff Eaton © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    9. The search box You are forced to guess in advance what might be available, and how it describes itself. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    10. The search box Please be descriptive. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    11. The search box And inventive. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    12. The search box Sorry, that doesn’t exist. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    13. Drupal’s search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    14. Drupal’s search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    15. Drupal’s search box Not exactly the emphasis of our site. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    16. Drupal’s search box Why can’t Drupal’s search be as good as Google? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    17. Drupal’s search box Tip: set your scoring factors to zero. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    18. Drupal’s search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    19. Drupal’s search box Why can’t Drupal’s search be as fast as Google? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    20. Drupal’s search box Hint: node_load() © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    21. The advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    22. Advanced search box Attempts to reduce the result set by using meta data. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    23. Advanced search box Is somewhat better than the naked search box. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    24. Advanced search box The person searching has guidance on how to reduce the results. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    25. Advanced search box You can still end up with zero results, though. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    26. Advanced search box You still have to guess about how to find what you’re looking for. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    27. Advanced search box People don’t want to have to do that much work! © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    28. Advanced search box The best recipe for “advanced” search forms is Views, with a search filter. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    29. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    30. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    31. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    32. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    33. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    34. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    35. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    36. Advanced search box © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    37. Views and search lters Why can’t Views with search filters be as fast as Google? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    38. Views and search lters Hint: node_load() © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    39. Views and search lters And you can still come to a zero result search query. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    40. Meet faceted search © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    41. Meet faceted search Faceted search reverses the search paradigm. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    42. Meet faceted search Instead of thinking of a super- specific search to cut through too many results, © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    43. Meet faceted search you start with the most general search that describes what you’re looking for. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    44. Meet faceted search From there you narrow the set down. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    45. Meet faceted search You get guidance from the facets. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    46. Meet faceted search You never come to a dead-end with zero results. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    47. Meet faceted search If you sense that you are refining in the wrong direction you can back up. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    48. Meet faceted search Or you can remove a criterion and broaden the search. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    49. Meet faceted search Search becomes multi-dimensional. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    50. Meet faceted search Search becomes interactive. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    51. Meet faceted search Search becomes iterative. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    52. Meet faceted search • Start broad and general • Narrow on facets • Sort • Back up (remove facetes) • Narrow again • Victory! © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    53. Meet faceted search Your idea of the search goal often changes in the midst of searching. Faceted search does more to inspire you into new directions. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    54. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    55. Meet ApacheSolr Next generation search for Drupal. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    56. Meet ApacheSolr Lucene / Solr / Drupal © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    57. Meet ApacheSolr Java = faster than PHP + MySQL © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    58. Meet ApacheSolr Solr is a separate server. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    59. Meet ApacheSolr Webserver + PHP SQL POST GET to index to search Database Solr Server © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    60. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr is a Drupal module that integrates Drupal with Solr. http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    61. Meet ApacheSolr • Robert Douglass • Jacob Singh • Peter Wolanin • Frank Febbraro • Mike J. O’Connor • Alejandro Garza • Thomas Seidl http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    62. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr has native faceted search. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    63. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    64. Meet ApacheSolr • Content types • Authors • Taxonomy terms • Languages • CCK field values • Site (for multisite search) © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    65. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr has sortable search results. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    66. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    67. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr can index attached files. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    68. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr can recommend content. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    69. Meet ApacheSolr By evaluating the similarity of texts, Solr determines what content has similarities. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    70. Meet ApacheSolr The ApacheSolr \"More Like This\" module provides content recommendation blocks on node view pages. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    71. Meet ApacheSolr Solr evaluates the title, body, taxonomy terms, author name, etc. for similarity. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    72. Meet ApacheSolr Content recommendation is a great tool for making your site sticky and leading site visitors to the next item of interest. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    73. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    74. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr is highly configurable. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    75. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    76. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    77. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    78. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    79. Meet ApacheSolr © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    80. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr can search across multiple websites. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    81. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    82. ? ? ? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    83. Meet ApacheSolr Why can’t ApacheSolr be as fast as Google? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    84. Meet ApacheSolr It can be!!! © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    85. Meet ApacheSolr Hint: No node_load() © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    86. Meet ApacheSolr ApacheSolr will soon be available as a hosted solution from Acquia. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    87. Meet ApacheSolr Acquia’s hosted solution is a way to scale your website. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    88. Meet ApacheSolr Move server load from your servers to ours. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    89. Meet ApacheSolr Move sysadmin load from your organization to ours. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    90. Meet ApacheSolr Move uptime and monitoring worries from your team to ours. © 2008 Acquia, Inc.
    91. Meet ApacheSolr Questions? © 2008 Acquia, Inc.

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