Comments on: Acquia Search

By: The Best Wordpress Search Plug-in: WPSearch 2

The Best Wordpress Search Plug-in: WPSearch 2 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:05:46 +0000

[...] had around 1,000 downloads, and I’ve had a lot of positive feedback coming in. I also dropped a comment about it on WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg’s site, where he mentioned a search pro…. Hopefully he’ll check it out and let me know what he [...]

By: Kenny Katzgrau

Kenny Katzgrau — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:37:25 +0000

Hey Again,

We launched it last week at Wordcamp NYC. If you try it, let me know what you think. I def think it’s the best search plugin for WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpsearch/

- Kenny

By: Kenny Katzgrau

Kenny Katzgrau — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:52:58 +0000

Hey Matt,

Look for WPSearch 2 in the plug-in repository after we release it tomorrow at Wordcamp NYC. I think you’ll dig.

- Kenny

By: Ted Szukalski

Ted Szukalski — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:36:02 +0000

Adam, point taken. I guess on my blog I have sold my soul to Google and replaced the internal search with Google custom search.

Personally I’d be more interested in a natural language query to the point where “orange female cat” can also return “ginger feline queen”

By: Adam Kalsey

Adam Kalsey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:49 +0000

Ted, not all content is intended to be found by all users. Assuming some amount of access control in the CMS, you’d want access control in the search system as well.

External search isn’t needed for smaller sites. But once you being to scale to lots of traffic, the built-in CMS search tends not to keep up. Off-loading search to another server, one with data storage and processing power dedicated toward the indexing and retrieval of content, is a quick way to help sites scale. Installing and maintaining those search services, however, is more complex than running your average PHP CMS. Hence the hosted search services.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:19:25 +0000

Very cool, I had heard about this but lost following it somewhere along the way. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:20:19 +0000

Here is the aforementioned GSOC project:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:02:44 +0000

Well you can already filter search results by category, tag, author, exclusions, date, almost any piece of metadata that is addressable by WP_Query. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a plugin UI for it.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:30:03 +0000

if google results were displayed in reverse chronological order, how useful would you find it? google sorts by relevance, which completely changes the value of the results.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:28:54 +0000

On google? not very often. But when mining my own blog for info about stuff I’ve done, it would be extremely useful.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:15:42 +0000

How often do you use advanced search on Google? I never do. What I want is always right at the top.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:14:29 +0000

Yes and there is a Google Summer of Code project on this right now, but as with video processing we’re limited by the resources available to us by default and it’s something that could be fairly efficiently done as a remote service.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:27:50 +0000

I’m not sure an external (and centralized) search engine is needed – but improvements to the search features built into WordPress would really kick ass. Advanced search? Sort by relevance instead of reverse-chronological dump? Boolean searches? I suppose if those are only possible via Lucene and Solr, then give’r, but a better, more flexible native search would make more sense first.

By: ben_

ben_ — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:16:41 +0000

Solr and Lucene are so extremly powerfull Open Source Tools. I think they have the potential to change the way we think of Content Management,

By: Matt W

Matt W — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:40:40 +0000

It sounds interesting but I would hope that you would leave intact and continue to improve upon the built-in search for wordpress.org sites. I’m not a big fan of relying on external services for my site and do so sparingly.

By: Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:15:24 +0000

Technically any CMS should be able to create a plugin for Acquia’s hosted search service. Let me know if you want to give that a try, or if you want to chat a bit about what we have done.

By: Ted Szukalski

Ted Szukalski — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:04:35 +0000

Matt, call me naive but why would you spend all the processing power to encrypt indexed content while this content is intended to be publicly found. Isn’t this what the search is intended for in the first place?