May 03, 2022
Tom Humbarger
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At DrupalCon 2022, Sameer Maggon, head of product for SearchStax, gave a presentation titled “Introducing the Surprising DrupalSearch.org”. It was surprising because of the quality of the search results on the current drupal.org website, and surprising because of the modest effort required to build a better search experience based on real drupal.org content.
Sameer started off the presentation looking at the importance of search and gave these statistics to prove his point:
Google has raised expectations in providing results that users are looking for from a keyword experience and upped the ante in what to expect out of a great search experience. Unfortunately, when you look at many corporate websites today, that experience is not on par with the Google experience.
Looking at the search experience on the drupal.org website, there are many areas of improvement. Sameer issued some search examples, showed the results and pointed out several areas of deficiency in the current search results.
This led into a discussion of the 3 key ingredients for better search:
Sameer then revealed what a great search experience could look like on Drupal based on a project called DrupalSearch. DrupalSearch was built as a demonstration for DrupalCon using real drupal.org content.
Visit https://www.searchstax.com/drupal/ to test drive the search results page.
After showing some potential results on DrupalSearch.org, Sameer ended with a list of next steps for getting a better search experience on drupal.org. SearchStax has already volunteered to support the project efforts from a hosting, time and license perspective.
Watch the entire presentation below or on Drupal Association YouTube channel or download the slides.
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