Multisite search engine project for large public library

By lebachai on 28 Apr 2007 at 12:23 UTC

Cleveland Public Library (http://www.cpl.org) is moving to a large (20+) multisite Drupal installation. We need someone to create a way for end users to search across *all* of the sites seamlessly, so that someone can not only search all of the content of all of the sites, but those sites can be initiated from any given search box across the multisite installation. The search results must use the core Drupal search functionality, so that results are brought up and ranked properly. We have experimented with the OpenSearch modules, but have not been successful in getting what we need. We would be open to those modules, however, if someone wanted to modify them to match our requirements.

If possible, we would also like to have search results pull in data from two non-Drupal systems: our online catalog (http://search.clevnet.org) and our eMedia system (http://dlc.clevnet.org). This would be a great addition, but searches cannot be performed directly on the databases in these instances (only by feeding a keyword string into the URL). If this step is something you feel you can undertake, please include it in your proposal.

We are accepting proposals until May 4th, 2007 (or until filled). Please provide 1) your contact information, 2) at least 3 references for your work with Drupal, and 3) a brief cost estimate. Please send your proposal to me via my personal contact form, as well as any questions you might have.

Comments

Google's Co-op search

eferraiuolo commented 28 April 2007 at 13:29

I know you have a requirement of:

The search results must use the core Drupal search functionality, so that results are brought up and ranked properly.

but one way I do know you could achieve searching multiple sites from one search box is to use Google's Co-op service.

Have a look at

hectorplus commented 28 April 2007 at 18:57

Have a look at http://drupal.org/project/google_cse

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isnt that depending on the

Goose4all commented 26 May 2007 at 11:54

isnt that depending on the speed, google is indexing your site?

i wouldnt rely on google on that cause it can take forever til it got indexed.

Hi! Please contact me by

lalex commented 28 May 2007 at 13:49

Hi! Please contact me by email - lalex at aboutdigital.ru.

we'd make the module

bekeen commented 28 May 2007 at 16:34

send me email to deodon [at] gmail [dot] com

This project is now closed

lebachai commented 29 May 2007 at 11:54

We hired someone to do this already. Thank you for all inquiries.

We need this multisite

craines commented 5 September 2007 at 17:54

We need this multisite search functionality as well.
Would CPL consider making this module they've developed availble to the drupal community ?

The developer told us they would release it at some point

lebachai commented 12 September 2007 at 12:42

But we are still working some kinks out (site just went live), so you might want to wait a bit anyway. Overall, it does work though. Send me a private message if you'd like to contact the developer directly.

Code will be released to the Drupal community

lebachai commented 30 January 2008 at 14:49

The developer (BPO Canada) and Cleveland Public Library have agreed to release the code to the Drupal community in the very near future. Keep your eyes open!