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Good Drupal Search Without Solr

Posted: November 30, 2009 In / 6 Comments

Lucene_logo_green.pngWhen it comes to good Drupal search the options are limited. There's Drupal core search which isn't anywhere near the search experience we've come to expect. It's a search engine written by CMS developers. On the other hand we hear about Solr. To use Solr you either need to pay a company like Acquia to host it or run Solr as a Java program on a web server. While the Solr module provides all you need to get it going, for most of us this simply isn't an option. For those of us who want more than Drupal core search offers but aren't ready to jump to Solr there's an option in the middle. The Lucene API module. Read more »