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This is a BoF discussion that is planned for August 24, 2008 at 16:30 - 17:45 as a part of the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

• What improvements have gone into Drupal search as a result of the Minnesota Search Sprint?
• ApacheSolr demonstration
• Xapian search and Drupal.org

Search is cool. Come talk about it.

I've proposed and extended search session for Szeged. The timing of the session is important as a way to keep momentum going from the Minnesota Search Sprint and focus on what we can achieve in Drupal 7. It will also provide a chance for people to talk about alternatives to Drupal core, what core can do to support the growing number of 3rd-party solutions, and what core can learn from things like ApacheSolr.

http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/sessions/drupal-search-where-are-we-wher...

Please vote if you like the session.

Is there any way that I can use panels for a custom content type search. For instance I have a content type called Events, and I only want to search nodes of this type, however I want to state withing the domain of the Events url ('events/whatever')? Is this possible or should I be looking for a different solution?

Thanks!

UPDATE: Now contains link to Matt's screencast.
[I'm posting this as a new topic, since the contents may be of interest for people who did not or could not make it.]

Thanks to the folks who showed up last Monday for the June SF Drupal User's Group meeting at PariSoMa. Twelve in all, dealing with the heat to attend ever-informative and entertaining Matt Cheney talk about Swish-E (link to screencast below) Some of the topics we covered:

Trellon recently released the Xapian search module for Drupal. This replaces Drupal's standard search feature seamlessly (except for a core patch) with an interface to the Xapian search engine. There's a post about it over on Trellon.com.

I posted some internal benchmarks from the Xapian module we are working on in the Trellon.com blog. This post describes the performance gains using Xapian can have and does some benchmarking on a really, really slow server.

Would love it if someone could verify those results. We are about to take the sample size of the data up to about 1mil nodes and repeat.

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http://drupal.org/node/247482

This patch adds spelling suggestions to the page that is returned if no search results are found.

This is done by utilizing the Levenshtein algorithm for calculating the nearness of words.

Searching has always been a very important issue in any Photo Gallery Application/Image databases .People post different kind of pictures related to things they are passionate about and this creates a big Image database .Such sites using Drupal's labeler will benefit in search results . But searches also have to depend on the labels assigned to the images which are usually set,when they are added to the database .

I'd like to introduce you to an experimental project of mine called Drupal Code Search.

Drupal Code Search lets you search source code from thousands of Drupal modules and themes, use regular expressions, filter results by version, and more.

The goal of this project is to help themers and module developers find code examples faster and easier than before. Results are retrieved using the Code Search Data API.

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