Hey gang
I've been looking for days, and can't seem to find a solution to this!
Basically, Drupal's default search sucks. I have a new site where search should be a primary way to find material, and it's just terrible. It doesn't even seem to care about the Title (which I would weight very heavily personally) any more than content in the body. I've improved it a little with search_config and porter_stemmer, etc, but still is incredibly underwhelming.
I tried the Lucene Search, and it totally ruled and I'm in love with it. The problem is that our server is a bit behind, and the admins can't/won't get unicode PCRE support enabled for me, making that not be an option.
So - any suggestions for:
- making the node TITLE be weighted heavily in default search?
- another module to try for improved keyword matching?
- anything else?
Thanks!
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Field indexer
Not sure if this will help, but I'm using http://drupal.org/project/field_indexer on a few sites. My uses have been for CCK fields, but "title" is one of the options to check. I've had mixed success with using a Google CSE as well.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Thanks for the suggestion, and that would probably work if didn't want to care about the Node Body at all, but I just wanted to really tip the scales - not remove it :)
Anyway, I worked closely with the maintainer for Fuzzysearch this afternoon and together we hacked it up a bit to get it to a good spot for me - at least until our servers get upgraded and we can use Lucene.