By freelylw on

I want to use drupal to create a heavy photo search site, pretty similar like flickr. people would upload 100 thousands photo to the site, each photo will be given several tag, also the photo will be store in different category.

the question is :
before I start to do this , I just want to have an idea how much information drupal can handle ? coz drupal is not a search engine, but if I purelly just use it's search function, how much drupal can do ???
Does anybody knows about the tech of drupal search, ? how many pages or text or whatever drupal search can handle ????
how drupal search can compare with other search tools on the market ? coz I also thinking to use drupal to build the site, but embed another search tool into the site to replace the drupal search if it is not good enough.

or anybody can suggest a good search program which is not too expensive and can handle a lot of information in a quick way.

thank you so much !!!

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vm’s picture

vm commented

There are over 280 thousand posts here on Drupal.org as well as 281794 comments, that being said, search seems to be pretty fast here
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Confucius says:
"Those who seek drupal answers should use drupal search!" : )

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StevenSokulski commented

Its all about the resources you can throw at it. As long as you run it on a server with sufficient processing power and storage everything should be just fine.

freelylw’s picture

freelylw commented

thanks for reply.

I don't really know about the tech of search program. but you can have a look at http://searchtools.com/tools/tools.html . if just like that simple, why there r so many different program in the market ??????? coz I am really going to use the search heaveily. that's why I am concering this.

thank you .

vm’s picture

vm commented

every algorithm is different which would explain the amount of tools on the market. Take google for example. Their algorithum is different then ask.com's and ask.coms differnt then yahoo.com.

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Confucius says:
"Those who seek drupal answers should use drupal search!" : )

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mikeparker commented

As far as I'm aware, the drupal site uses apache solr. There's a bit of setup involved, but it works like a dream when it's installed.