Search

search_attachments.module allows searching the text of PDF, MS Word, plain text, and other types of files attached to nodes. In order to extract the text from attached files, this module calls 'helper apps' such as cat and pdftotext. Drupal administrators can configure any helpers they like.

This module is no longer supported as it has been combined with Search Files. Please refer to the Search Files module which now includes the Search Attachments module.

This Drupal module attempts to provide context for content items by displaying a view block with links to other similar content. Similarity is based on the taxonomy terms assigned to content. Views are available based on similarity within each of the defined vocabularies for a site as well as similarity within all vocabularies.

What does this really mean? How should you use this module?

This module provides drupal sites with a fuzzy search engine to allow for broader keyword matches including partial or misspelled keywords.

Fuzzy matching is implemented by using ngrams. Each word in a node is split into 3 (default) letter lengths, so 'apple' gets indexed with 3 smaller strings 'app', 'ppl', 'ple'. The effect of this is that as long as your search matches X percentage (administerable in the admin settings) of the word the node will be pulled up in the results.

Adds a type selector to search blocks to limit searches by content type or to search users. The selector appears only for users with the "use advanced search" permission.

Adds a fieldset to the search configuration form to select which content types to offer as options.

Initial development was sponsored by Thomas Webb.

Provides browser search integration via the OpenSearch plugin protocol. It adds a search addon for Firefox and IE7 to Drupal sites, much like those found at MyCroft or the IE7 Search Providers.

Biblio Facets integrates with Faceted Search to allow users to browse Biblio types and fields as facets.

While this module works well on small sites, it is not as robust as Search Restrict. There won't be a Drupal 6 (or 7) release for this module, so please use Search Restrict instead.

There is also the Search configuration module that for Drupal 7 now incorporates this functionality.

Interactively rebuild the search index.

The search index normally is indexed using cron. This is the best way to build the search index because it provides the best use of system resources. However, if you need to rebuild the index, this module can interactively rebuild the index quicker than cron by using the batch API, or using a drush command.

You don't need this module to rebuild the index with drush - just use the native drush core search feature $ drush search-reindex --immediate --verbose

Multisearch is a module that present different search-options (engines) in a block or in the searchpage.

At the moment the module has static engines included. For the future is planed a dynamic search-engine-selection (global and for profiles), some ajax-functions for previewing the searchresults from external searchengines in the searchpage (multi-search).

Provides a search tab which pulls results from the Bing web service. The search query can be limited to a set of sites, and various advanced search query strings can be used (or appended to all search queries).

The 2.x branches of this module support the Bing API 2.x; the 1.x branches support the original Live Search API 1.x.