Talking Drupal #407 - Better Drupal Search

Today we are talking about How to improve Drupal Search with Sean Walsh.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/407

Topics

• Drupal core search improvement
• External search backends
  • Database
  • Solr
  • Elasticsearch
  • Opensearch
  • Algolia
  • SearchStax
• Common Modules
  • Facets
  • Search API Autocomplete
  • Search API Exclude
• Improve search for users
• Segmented vs Unified search
• A11y tips
• Common pitfalls

Resources

• Search api solr boost by term
• Search exclude
• Search api autocomplete
• Facets
• Database
• Solr
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
  • https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html
• ElasticSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_search_api
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_connector/
  • https://www.elastic.co/
• OpenSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_opensearch
  • https://opensearch.org/
• Algolia
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_algolia
  • https://www.algolia.com
• SearchStax
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/searchstax
  • https://www.searchstax.com
• Issues for rendered html
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA Commerce
Provides events to the ECA module from all of the commerce core and submodules.