<p>You've built a great site and spent a countless hours creating compelling content, but important questions remain. Can your visitors quickly find what they need on your site? Is your current search strategy helping visitors find information, or is it slowing them down?</p> <p>Join Robert Douglass, Senior Drupal Advisor at Acquia and maintainer of the Apache Solr Search integration module, and Bryan House, senior director of marketing, for a one-hour webinar presentation. Acquia Search is a cloud-based service within the Acquia Network that delivers powerful Apache Solr search capabilities to Drupal 6 websites as a plug-and-play option. Using Acquia Search, your visitors will find information faster and spend more time on your site, resulting in higher conversions on your site.</p> <p>Key takeaways will include:</p> <ul> <li>Overview of the latest Acquia Search features - including multisite search, attachment search, and more</li> <li>Learn how easy it is to deploy and configure Acquia Search on any Drupal 6 site</li> <li>An introduction to the pricing options available for Acquia Search, starting at under $30 / month</li> </ul>

1. 5 Reasons Your Site Needs Acquia Search
Robert Douglass Bryan House
Senior Drupal Advisor Sr. Director, Marketing
Acquia Acquia
@robertDouglass @bryanhouse

2. Upcoming Webinars
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3. Introduction
Robert Douglass
–Senior Drupal Advisor, Acquia
–Co-maintainer, Apache Solr Search
Integration

4. Agenda
Why is search important?
5 Reasons you need Acquia Search
1. Better search
2. Content recommendation
3. Better scoring and ranking
4. File search
5. Multisite search

5. Why is search important?
User generated
content
Complex Information
architectures
Content utilization

6. Why is search important?
Today’s internet audience is exceptionally well
trained:

7. Drupal’s Built-in Search is Very Basic

8. Limitations of Drupal Search
No result sorting by relevance
No filters on result sets
No “recommended content”
No result display based on content type
No search across multiple Drupal sites
Cannot weight content or alter queries to force
desired (business) results
Doesn’t scale for large sites well

9. 1. Better search
Acquia Search:
• Built on Apache Solr
• Faceted navigation
• Content recommendation
• No server infrastructure

10. Acquia Search: Filters & Facets

11. Acquia Search: Sortability

12. Acquia Search: Term Highlighting

13. Acquia Search: Did You Mean? (Stemming)

14. Search Comparison
Acquia Faceted Drupal Drupal
Search / Drupal Core Search
Apache Solr Module Xapian Sphinx
Result Sorting
Facets on result filters
Content
recommendations
Filter by content type
Search across multiple
Drupal sites
Hooks to alter index/
queries via modules
Works with filter & node
access system
Scales to 1,000,000 nodes

15. Faster is Better
Drupal core Acquia
search Drupal test site Search
Hardware:
• 3.2 Ghz processor
• 1.7 GB RAM
Site:
• 10,000 content nodes
• 300 millisecond page load
speed
Query result time: Query result time:
1.5 - 7.7 seconds < 500 milliseconds
Performance gain with Acquia Search
3x - 16x faster

16. Acquia Search: Wildcards

17. Acquia Search: Wildcards
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18. Acquia Search: Wildcards
example.com/admin/settings/apachesolr

19. 2: Content Recommendation

20. 2: Content Recommendation

21. 2: Content Recommendation

22. 3. Better scoring and ranking

23. 3. Better scoring and ranking

24. 3. Better scoring and ranking

25. 4. Searching in files

26. 4. Searching in files
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27. http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr_attachments

28. 4. Searching in files
Microsoft: Open Office
– Excel Rich Text Format (rtf )
– Word .jar, .zip, .tgz
– PowerPoint
– Visio
– Outlook
Text, XML, HTML
PDF
MP3, MIDI, Wave
Flash Video

29. How Acquia Search works
Your website
Indexes & search servers
(replicated for scale, HA)
Site pushes content to index
Uses HMAC and SSL for security
Unique index per site
Search terms
Search result
Search request by site visitor
Uses HMAC and SSL for security.
Site data access controls enforced in returned results.

30. How Acquia File Search works
Your website
Site pushes content to index
Files are POSTed to the extraction Indexes & search servers
server (replicated for scale, HA)
Text content
File content
Text extraction servers

31. 4. Searching in files

32. 4. Searching in files

33. 5. Multisite search

34. 5. Multisite search
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35. http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr_multisitesearch

36. Multiple separate sites
Site 1 index
Site 2 index
Site 3 index

37. Acquia Multisite Search
Multisite index

38. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

39. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

40. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

41. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

42. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

43. 5. Acquia Multisite Search
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

44. Acquia Multisite Search
Ask your Acquia Client Advisor
to help you set up
Acquia Multisite Search

45. How Much Does Acquia Search Cost?
Acquia Search is packaged in Slices
– A slice includes the processing power to:
Index a site
Perform near real-time index updates
Process search queries on demand
– Components:
Indexing server
Storage
Bandwidth
How many Slices does a site need
– Determined by search index size
– # of nodes X size per node

46. For Acquia Search, More Is Better
New packaging for Acquia Search
Included with every Acquia Network subscription
Increased capacity at every Subscription tier

47. For Acquia Search, More Is Better
Basic /
Professional Enterprise
Search
Acquia Search 10 Slices 25 Slices Unlimited
Index Size 100 MB 250 MB really big!
Estimated # of 10K - 20K 25K - 50K a whole lode
Nodes nodes nodes of nodes...
Starts at less
than $30/month

48. Acquia Search in Action
A few examples

52. 5 Reasons Your Site Needs Acquia Search
1. Better search - new features
2. Content recommendation
3. Better scoring and ranking
4. File search - new feature
5. Multisite search - new feature

53. Do you love working with Drupal?
If so, Acquia is hiring:
–Engineering & design
–Client advisors and consulting
–Inside sales
Check out openings at
http://acquia.com/careers

54. Questions
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