Top Five Reasons to Use Solr to Power Drupal Site Searching

Top Five Reasons to Use Solr to Power Site Search

The content in your Drupal site must be accessible to visitors, and this makes robust searching a necessity. Solr, a popular open source search platform, can be integrated with Drupal to provide robust and fast site searching.
 
Here are five of the top features Solr offers:

1. faceting searching – filter searches on fields, including date ranges
2. settings to push certain content as results – useful if, for example, an eCommerce site wants products to appear higher on the results list
3. file content searching – allows for searching within .doc and other file types
4. configurable “related content” recommendation algorithm – Solr can find and select content that's appropriate for the user's context and profile
5. a rich set of site statistical tools – allows website administrators to review and report on the most popular queries, query response time, and etc.

 
Contact us today to power your Drupal website searching with Solr.
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