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:
- faceting searching – filter searches on fields, including date ranges
- settings to push certain content as results – useful if, for example, an eCommerce site wants products to appear higher on the results list
- file content searching – allows for searching within .doc and other file types
- configurable “related content” recommendation algorithm – Solr can find and select content that's appropriate for the user's context and profile
- 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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