Search
Adding Acquia Search to your website creates a rich index of your website
content and adds faceted search refinement, helping users find content faster
and stay on your website longer.
Acquia Search provides your website with the following features:
- Solr search as a service: Acquia Search is an easy to configure Solr
search service letting you deliver flexible Drupal website search
capabilities in minutes.
- Faster searches: Your users can find what they are looking for faster
than using Drupal’s built-in search. Acquia Search has delivered searches
with a 60% to 500% improvement in response time.
- High availability: Acquia’s search infrastructure of Solr servers,
coupled with Nginx load balancers in a round-robin configuration, ensure
consistent availability of your website’s search index.
- Security: Apache Solr has no native security mechanism; administrators
must create their own security system on the application or network layer.
Acquia has implemented an HMAC authentication mechanism on the Solr servers
allowing access to authorized sites. All data transmits through SSL if the
client server supports it. Acquia Search also respects node access
controls, enabling search content limited to authorized users.
- Result filtering and weighting: Users can use facets to filter search
results, and the content of your choice appears near the top in search
results, shaping your users’ website experience.
- Content recommendations: Recommend similar or related content to
visitors, which can increase their time on your website.
- Multi-entity and attachment searches: The customer can search through
multiple types of content—not only content nodes, but also users, taxonomy
terms, or your own custom entity types. Search also can include the
contents of files attached to your websites.
- Better knowledge of the data structure: Acquia Search systematically
understands when content changes, and updates the index which means
updating your index requires one small change, instead of waiting for a
crawler to check your entire website for changes. Better knowledge of the
data structure also means the index can contain metadata not visible to
crawlers.