Overview
Thought I would quickly get down on paper (all be it virtual) some of the work that is in progress on the Drupal 6 upgrade of the nutch module.
Over the past month I have been redeveloping the Drupal 6 version of the Nutch module. In past implementations the Nutch module has used the open search client module to display its crawl results while this was a prefectly reasonable solution I felt that to continue down this line was not right for a number of reasons.
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Drupal Nutch Module - Current thinking and road map
Drupal Apache Solr new functionality
I have been using the Drupal Apache Solr module since about May 2008 and have seen it evolve into a awsome feature rich module. It is now in a state that it is able to do most of the standard things you need for a client build out of the box including field boosting, more like this and faceted search. The only things I always ended up adding patches for was returning custom fields (to the fl "field list" param) and messing with the results returned from Solr e.g.
Drupalcon 2009 - Day 4
A great keynote speech by Dan Brickley who gave insight in the future of how website builders can leverage the power of semantic markup
