Monday, May 17, 2010

40. The search features in Drupal are excellent, as compared to search in other content management systems. What makes these so good?

Drupal's search is so good because Drupal doesn't treat its content as a big bucket of text; rather, all of the fine-grained semantic information that Drupal knows about can be used to fine-tune search results. That includes the type of content, any classification information from the taxonomy system, and the usual content metadata. Inside the search engine is an extensible indexer that can accept pretty much anything. In the book, one of the examples uses Drupal to index an external non-Drupal database.

And as usual, you can tweak and override the search system to adjust the user interface, the way content is ranked, and the way results are displayed. That said, Drupal integrates well with external search engines such as Apache Solr, Xapian, and Sphinx if the built-in Drupal search does not meet your needs.


source: http://ostatic.com/blog/interview-john-vandyk-author-of-pro-drupal-development

1 comment:

  1. Drupal is excellent in semantic information, and I am a big fan of Drupal. I count drupal as the best CMS on planet. I am following a drupal-discussion-group at http://www.iwillstudy.com/group/drupal

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