By jfarry on

Hi everyone :)

I'm in a bit of a pickle with what to do about a site, regarding search and such. I'd like to create a live 'intelligent' search, like what is on last.fm (http://www.last.fm - in the top right beside Login), where search is carried out over certain fields that I have created in CCK and results are grouped. I've investigated the Finder module and although the screenshot looks bang on the money, as far as implementing that exact same thing, I've not found a whole lot of info. I've also read in other places that using Views as a base to search is not such a good idea, due to it not indexing searches like the core search module does.

At the moment I'm looking for any suggestions at all on what I could use to implement the same thing. I've seen the term 'Faceted Search' thrown around a little, but don't really know what it's about. Some places I read say that it's about browsing and filtering as opposed to searching...

If anyone could give me some suggestions for how I should go about something like this (and if there's anything wrong with using Views to search like this) I'd be greatly appreciated :) Any information at all would be appreciated :)

Thank you for your time :)

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leeotzu commented

I suggest you to explore the Apache solr search module http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

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jfarry commented

My project is a little too small for apache solr at the moment, but thank you for your suggestion.