Acquia 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:

• Search as a service
  Acquia Search is a plug-and-play search service that lets you deliver great search functionality in minutes.
• Faster searches
  Your users can find what they’re 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 Ngnix 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 have to implement their own security system on the application or network layer. Acquia has implemented an HMAC authentication mechanism on the Solr servers that only allows access to authorized sites. All data is transmitted over SSL if the client server supports it. Acquia Search also respects node access controls, enabling search content to be limited to authorized users.
• Result filtering and weighting
  Users can use facets to filter search results, and the content of your choice appears higher in search results, shaping your users’ website experience.
• Content recommendations
  Suggest similar or related content to visitors, which can increase their time on your website.
• Multi-entity and attachment searches
  Enables searching over multiple types of content — not just 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 automatically understands when content is changed, and updates the index. This means that updating your index requires one small change, instead of waiting for a crawler to check your entire site for changes. This also means that the index can contain metadata that may not be visible to crawlers.