Mot-clé: search

Metadata-based search vs. Primary-data search

This blogpost tries to analyze the pros and cons of using a metadata-based search vs. a primary-data search for (data) portals. While a metadata-search is based only on the metadata, a…
Thomas Ebermann

Drupal SearchAPI and result grouping

In this blog post I will present how, in a recent e-Commerce project built on top of Drupal7 (the former version of the Drupal CMS), we make Drupal7, SearchAPI and Commerce play …
Emanuele Panzeri
Software Developer, Open Source Contributor & Maintainer

Search: Get past English with Solr

Implementing a great search feature for an English website is already quite a task. When you add accented characters like you have in French, things tend to get messy. What about more e…
Gilles Crettenand

Magento Config Search

Working with Magento configuration it is always a chore. To make a change, you have to find a necessary section, then open it, then open its subsection, then sub-subsection and…
Maxim Gubar

Using a powerful and full-featured search engine on mobile platforms

When Xamarin meets Lucene… Introduction As soon as we are dealing with a bigger amount of data, it can be complicated to find what you are actually looking for. It is obvious that we c…
Christoph Ebert

Ecostar Elastica/FOQElasticaBundle

 As you might remember Lukas and I started working on some changes to the elastica library and the Symfony 2 Bundle FOQElasticaBundle during a hackday. You might also remember that we …
Lea Hänsenberger

Why a project switched from Google Search Appliance to Zend_Lucene

Google technology does a good job when searching the wild and treacherous realms of the public internet. However, the commercial Google Search Appliance (GSA) sold for searching…
David Buchmann
Software Developer, Open Source Contributor & Maintainer