New to Umbraco here and currently building my first site.
I've had a look at the "Examine" site search and worked through the tutorials. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for the best package to implement a site search? Or is the current "best" solution Examine?
There are certain scenarios, for super super large sites, load balanced and hosted in the cloud, where it may be preferable to utilise a cloud search service, such as Azure Search or Elastic Search, there is an interesting article about Elasticating Examine here; https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2017/elasticating-examine/
Site Search: packages/recommendations?
Hello all.
New to Umbraco here and currently building my first site.
I've had a look at the "Examine" site search and worked through the tutorials. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for the best package to implement a site search? Or is the current "best" solution Examine?
Thanks in advance for any responses!
Hi rdmDev
On the whole it depends on what you are building, generally speaking Examine is a good option for most scenarios.
If your new to Umbraco + Examine - check out the ezSearch package:
https://our.umbraco.com/packages/website-utilities/ezsearch/
it's a wrapper around your Examine indexes, and makes basic search queries super simple to implement.
if your search queries are more complex, then getting to know the Examine API, is the better approach: https://github.com/Shazwazza/Examine/wiki
There is also a great course that you can take online introducing you to search concepts in Umbraco: https://umbraco.com/training/course-details/searching-and-indexing/
There are certain scenarios, for super super large sites, load balanced and hosted in the cloud, where it may be preferable to utilise a cloud search service, such as Azure Search or Elastic Search, there is an interesting article about Elasticating Examine here; https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2017/elasticating-examine/
regards
Marc
Hello Marc.
That's a detailed answer and very useful.
Thanks for your time.
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