1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,800 Well, hello everybody. This is Michael Coté with RedMonk. We've got an exciting demo of 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,240 some Acquia stuff today that we're going to go over. And to that end, I'd like to introduce 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,260 the guests that we have to show this to us. Would you like to introduce yourself? 4 00:00:15,980 --> 00:00:19,980 Sure. My name is Brian House. I'm the marketing director here at Acquia. 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:25,320 Most people are familiar with what Drupal is, and people have probably heard about Acquia. 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,440 But can you just give us a quick overview? Acquia is a commercial open source vendor. We provide 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:37,940 commercial support for the Drupal social publishing system. Our company was founded in the middle of 8 00:00:37,940 --> 00:00:45,940 2007 by Dries Bittart, who is the founder of the Drupal project. And so we provide essentially 9 00:00:45,940 --> 00:00:52,900 technical support and what we call network services via the Acquia network to Drupal site owners. And so 10 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:59,780 we provide support for all of Drupal 6, the last major release of Drupal. So that's all 11 00:00:59,780 --> 00:01:05,000 community contributed modules, any custom code, any themes, and obviously Drupal core. 12 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,940 So if people are running Drupal sites in their organization, be it one site or be hundreds of 13 00:01:09,940 --> 00:01:16,120 sites, they can call us as a sort of dedicated technical support organization. So we're to Drupal 14 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,100 what Red Hat is to Linux or Canonical is to Ubuntu. 15 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:24,140 I think the interesting part, in addition to being the sort of classic open source company, 16 00:01:24,220 --> 00:01:28,800 if you will, as you're alluding to, you actually have network services. There's actually, there's 17 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,240 more than just support that you guys are providing. There's actually functionality via a service that 18 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:38,540 you guys sell as well, which I think is sort of a new addition to the open source company model. 19 00:01:39,260 --> 00:01:43,320 Yeah. Yeah. That's a, you know, we think that's a really important piece of our puzzle. There's a few 20 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:48,300 things we do. Some of it's on the site operation side. So it's as simple as doing heartbeat monitoring, 21 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:54,040 and we can run remote Cron for site owners if they don't have access, shell access to run Cron 22 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,380 themselves, or we can run in an automated fashion. But we also can extend sites. And we do this in a 23 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:05,000 couple ways. One is we have an automated spam blocking technology that provides spam blocking 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,860 on any user generated content. So it's not just comments, it's forms and any content types you 25 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:14,100 might have on your site. And then what we're going to talk about today is Acquia Search, 26 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,980 which is a hosted Apache Solar search service that can be plugged into any Drupal site. 27 00:02:19,980 --> 00:02:24,680 What I have here is this is a demo site. And the sort of concept behind this demo site, 28 00:02:24,780 --> 00:02:29,600 it's Velocity. It's a cycling community. And so this is a community-based site that would be as 29 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:36,120 an adjunct to a traditional company product site. So in this community, it's cyclists. They come in 30 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,500 and they interact with the product teams at an organization and with one another. And so 31 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:47,000 the thing cyclists care about are bike rides, sharing bike rides, you know, sharing photos with 32 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,080 them and sort of creating a place where they can do that. In the offline world, they do it at a bike 33 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,980 shop. In the online world, they can do it in a community site like this. It's a, you know, 34 00:02:55,180 --> 00:03:00,680 typical blog format here, nothing particularly special in the design. But one of the things they 35 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,960 have here are rides. And so these are all user generated rides that, you know, people can, 36 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,220 you know, create. And so this is user generated content taking advantage of what Drupal does 37 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:16,260 with what we call the content construction kit, which is the ability to create objects without any 38 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:22,900 custom programming. But where the search comes in is Acquia search is a, as I said, is a, 39 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:26,540 is a plug and play service. You drop a module into your Drupal site and you get, take advantage 40 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:30,740 of advanced search capabilities on the site. So I'm going to come in here. It's integrated 41 00:03:30,740 --> 00:03:34,500 right into my search box on the site. And I'm going to come in here and I'm actually going 42 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:39,320 to go and type in a search term. And you'll see, I actually spelled it incorrectly. So 43 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:44,540 the first thing I did is I, not being a very efficient typer, typist, I spelled the 44 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:47,680 word wrong. And so one of the things it gives you is it gives you, did you mean? It tells 45 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,080 you, you know, does some analysis to say, did you actually mean something else? So it 46 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,180 spells it right for me. So I can click on rides. And then what it does is it takes advantage 47 00:03:56,180 --> 00:04:01,980 of some of the power that Apache Solar provides to provide faceted, filtered search results. 48 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,700 So the first thing I see, not surprisingly, is a big, long list of search results. And so 49 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:12,140 I see that right in the middle. I have a couple pages. And this is obviously a site with not a ton 50 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:17,500 of content in it. But here on the left is where I start to see what we call faceted navigation. 51 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:24,740 So these are filters that help me as a site visitor come in and narrow down what it is I'm looking 52 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:29,260 for. And so there's a bunch of things that we come ship out of the box with Acquia search 53 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:34,220 that you can plug into your Drupal site. These are actually called blocks within a Drupal site. 54 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:39,280 They're pre-configured and you can plug them, plug and play them very easily into a site. And I'll 55 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,780 show you that in a minute. So as a user, I can see, okay, I can filter by content type. So do I want 56 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:50,940 rides or do I want blogs about rides or polls in this case? I can also filter by user tags. 57 00:04:51,860 --> 00:04:56,020 So these are all different tags that content creators have used. And so I can see, you know, 58 00:04:56,020 --> 00:05:00,860 instead of having two pages of results and 20 or 30 responses, I can actually see I can get four 59 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:06,300 road rides or five mountain rides. One of the things that I have in my rides that we saw on the other 60 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:13,640 page was I have a field called difficulty. And so I can add that as a search term too. So I can say, 61 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,040 you know what, I only want to look at challenging rides. And so that instead of getting two pages of 62 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:24,320 results, I can go down to three. And so the whole point here is to help a user navigate quickly to 63 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,060 the information they're looking for rather than have to page through lots and lots of search results. 64 00:05:29,060 --> 00:05:34,820 The other thing I wanted to show here is that it does, um, it supports branching. So you can see 65 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:40,040 that this is rides plural, but I actually get a few different, uh, um, variations of rides in my 66 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,820 search results. So I see, you know, the word ride over and over again, and that's just short for rides, 67 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:50,920 but I also see riding, um, and a few other, uh, options here. So it's, it actually provides some 68 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,620 intelligence in finding, um, content on the site and it's not specific to the word. So again, 69 00:05:55,620 --> 00:05:59,580 if you spill the spell the word wrong, you know, you're out of luck. You don't get the, 70 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:04,620 uh, the sort of complexity, um, and variation of site results there. So that's part of what 71 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:09,020 Apache solar does really benefits here for site owners. And this is one of the things that we've 72 00:06:09,020 --> 00:06:15,000 seen is that it also exposes a lot more content on the site because now suddenly as a visitor, 73 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:21,260 I can see sort of the variety of content here. And I, people, you know, what we've seen, uh, 74 00:06:21,260 --> 00:06:25,660 preliminarily is that it actually, people are spending more time on their site and page views 75 00:06:25,660 --> 00:06:29,080 are going up because they're like, Hey, I didn't realize that there was a bike rides about beers 76 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:35,780 and breweries in this instance, um, on a site about bike rides. So it allows people to, to, uh, 77 00:06:35,780 --> 00:06:40,460 to browse instead of just, uh, sort of searching for that needle in the haystack. They can look at 78 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:44,980 all the other pieces of hay in the haystack. Exactly. Exactly. So then, and then what happens 79 00:06:44,980 --> 00:06:51,700 here? So I choose to narrow just at rides and then all my filters, as I go down, start to change a 80 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:56,260 little bit. And let's say I want to do just downhill rides. So now I've got two facets. And so 81 00:06:56,260 --> 00:07:02,040 the facets change dynamically based on my choices. And I've down to, you know, three, three choices here 82 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:07,920 on the left and a, and a much smaller range of facets. And I can also do sort by author or date or 83 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,140 relevancy. So it narrows that down really quick. And so you can imagine a site, if you're a publisher 84 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:18,420 or a site that has a lot of content, you know, this becomes a critical feature and sort of getting 85 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:22,700 people where they want to go, but also exposing the content they have. The thing I wanted to show 86 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:29,300 just on the, um, on the user experience around this is it also has content recommendations. 87 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:34,060 So by clicking on this ride, I've actually enabled another block over here on the right, 88 00:07:34,060 --> 00:07:40,760 which tells me more like this. And so this is, um, taking advantage of the search technology and 89 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:46,120 doing again, some configurations, some waiting to say, to provide related content to this. 90 00:07:46,180 --> 00:07:50,660 And so recommend other things. So this person liked downhill rides that were challenging. And so 91 00:07:50,660 --> 00:07:53,580 these are the other things that popped up and these are other rides in there. So again, 92 00:07:53,980 --> 00:07:59,520 it's a way to keep people on your site, um, and show them more content. Hopefully they can browse 93 00:07:59,520 --> 00:07:59,780 further. 94 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,340 So just to be clear, like the sites this applies to, I assume they have to be like public websites, 95 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:10,260 right? For you guys to be able to index over them or how does that work a public versus a private or 96 00:08:10,260 --> 00:08:11,440 behind the firewall thing? 97 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,100 For any Drupal 6 site, the, really the, the only piece that connects that site to the 98 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:20,600 Acquia network and facilitates the communications or what we call the Acquia network connector modules. 99 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:27,220 So any site that, um, that, uh, has that installed and can broker communications out to the public 100 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:31,220 internet, either through, you know, through a firewall, like, you know, putting a whole port, 101 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:36,660 opening a port or in a public site can communicate with the Acquia network. I think that, you know, 102 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,960 the, the other piece here is that the index for this is maintained in the cloud and on the 103 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,180 Acquia network. And so, you know, we maintain that for you and that's how we can deliver search 104 00:08:46,180 --> 00:08:51,400 results down to the site. So the key question here is, is whether or not, you know, an organization 105 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,620 in their, in their particular application is comfortable having that index out. Another piece 106 00:08:55,620 --> 00:09:02,420 of this is so, so all of this technology is built on the Apache solar modules for Drupal and our 107 00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:08,140 engineering team worked with the community module maintainers and has contributed all the code we've 108 00:09:08,140 --> 00:09:14,040 done, um, to make sure that these modules work and are performed in Drupal six, we've contributed 109 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,800 back to the code. So for an organization that wanted faceted search and content recommendations 110 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,600 and waiting, you know, they certainly have the ability to spin up their own Apache solar instance, 111 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,980 um, and run that in an internal data center or, you know, wherever they might be, you know, 112 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:32,480 the value of our services, you know, we can offload that and do all that for you. 113 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:37,300 Just to make sure I, we understand correctly, essentially as long, if you can have an open 114 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:42,300 port on, on your firewall, then the, essentially you can tunnel through doing this indexing and 115 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,640 using this service for a website that you may not have exposed to the public. 116 00:09:46,060 --> 00:09:46,700 That's correct. 117 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:51,480 Right. And, and then of course, if you're, uh, if, if you're super paranoid about things, 118 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,420 you can just get the, the solar project yourself and run it behind the firewall instead of 119 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:58,540 using the service and then, and then nothing escapes your firewall at all. 120 00:09:59,060 --> 00:09:59,620 That's correct. 121 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:03,540 What's your sense for how much Drupal there is running behind the firewall that people 122 00:10:03,540 --> 00:10:04,560 might want to search over? 123 00:10:05,660 --> 00:10:10,460 You know, honestly, I think it's, um, we're constantly surprised at the number of people. 124 00:10:10,460 --> 00:10:15,220 I mean, you know, organizations like NASA and Pfizer have been pretty public about how 125 00:10:15,220 --> 00:10:20,420 they're running Drupal on their, their internet. Um, um, for internet deployments, we actually 126 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:25,600 have a customer Florida hospital in central Florida who, um, are actually in the process 127 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:32,320 of deploying, um, Drupal for about 70 team in departmental sites within their organization. 128 00:10:33,020 --> 00:10:37,260 And they're standardizing on Drupal, you know, essentially as a technology, both for their 129 00:10:37,260 --> 00:10:42,460 external properties and their internal properties. Um, so I think that there's a lot there. 130 00:10:42,540 --> 00:10:46,840 Certainly the other, the other challenge here is, is, you know, SharePoint is a pretty 131 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,700 pervasive technology in the intranet and there's, you know, you're starting to hear more and 132 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:55,060 more about concerns with SharePoint, both on a functionality and then sort of a compliance 133 00:10:55,060 --> 00:10:59,600 angle. And so there's, I think there's a lot of opportunity there for us to, uh, to, for, 134 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,680 to, for Drupal to have a play and, and to, to increase its, um, presence in the intranet. 135 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:09,020 And we think like technologies, complimentary technologies, like what Alfresco is doing on 136 00:11:09,020 --> 00:11:13,700 the content management side, sort of help mitigate the risk and control concerns, but 137 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:18,440 also provide a centralized, uh, environment for collaboration and document management 138 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:19,220 and those type things. 139 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:23,100 Got the, uh, if, if it was the next thing you're queuing up, like check out the, the 140 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,360 sort of admin interface that, that you were talking about. 141 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,940 That's exactly where I was going. So, uh, so I logged in as the site administrator on 142 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:34,000 this site and then I was going to pull up. So what happens here, so this is, um, what I 143 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,720 see here is the administration menu. This is a module that's included in Acquia Drupal. 144 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:43,040 Actually, the, everything I'm showing here is in Acquia Drupal, our package. And so to 145 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,840 have a relationship with Acquia doesn't require Acquia Drupal, but, uh, um, it, you know, what 146 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:52,620 we've done here is created a sort of a on rapid on ramp for people that are building Drupal 147 00:11:52,620 --> 00:11:56,700 sites. It extends the footprint of the site that gets upgraded, upgraded with each release 148 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:01,960 of Acquia Drupal. Um, but also, uh, sort of gives sort of essential modules to help them 149 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,440 get started. And one of the things we include in this is obviously Acquia search, which is 150 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:13,080 displayed here in the site configuration menu as the Apache solar, um, option because these 151 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:19,560 are the Apache solar modules. So from an administrator, I get a few things, um, to help sort of configure 152 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:24,300 the results and, and, and, and tweak the experience that my site visitors will have when they come. 153 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,100 So the first thing it does is it tells me where the, the, the, on the settings page, where it's 154 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:34,300 coming from, how many items that indexes per cron run. So the way this works is, is content 155 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:39,760 submitted to the site. And then on every cron run, um, a number of items are patched up to 156 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,820 the index where they get indexed, they get put into the, our indexing servers in the cloud. 157 00:12:43,820 --> 00:12:48,520 And then obviously that, that content lives in your database on your site, wherever your 158 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,980 site may be. It could be in your data center hosted on a third party host or hosted by 159 00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:57,780 Acquia. Then I can also configure how many results to show on a page. Um, I also can configure 160 00:12:57,780 --> 00:13:02,560 what happens when there, that there's a breakdown in that communication. So, you know, by default, 161 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:07,060 it shows your core Drupal search results. So, you know, Drupal core search is still available on 162 00:13:07,060 --> 00:13:11,780 your site. Um, I can also show nothing or show an error message, but, you know, defaulting to the 163 00:13:11,780 --> 00:13:18,460 core results would probably be the best experience. Um, and then this enables me to turn on spell 164 00:13:18,460 --> 00:13:21,680 checking and suggestions, you know, the did you mean feature that we saw. 165 00:13:22,060 --> 00:13:26,060 Right, right. That that's, that's always critical for me because I'm, uh, I'm addicted to the red 166 00:13:26,060 --> 00:13:32,100 squiggly and, uh, if, if there it's, it's almost impossible for me to find anything if, uh, if 167 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:36,500 there's not spell checking search, cause I can never figure out how to, uh, spell what I'm looking for. 168 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,460 So we, we give you an idea of the search index. So, uh, the number of documents, and as I 169 00:13:40,460 --> 00:13:44,720 showed, this is a demo site, there's not a lot in there, the number of terms associated with this, 170 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:50,060 how much of this content has been indexed and sent to the server, you know, number of fields. 171 00:13:50,060 --> 00:13:54,380 And that gives me some idea of what's popping up. So there's, you know, this is very machine 172 00:13:54,380 --> 00:14:00,240 language oriented, um, on this page right now, but you can see things like taxonomy terms. 173 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:06,600 These are taxonomy vocabulary lists and fields like difficulty, which we saw that. Um, so you 174 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,360 can get some idea of, you know, what terms are in the end. Where this gets really interesting 175 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,560 though, is the sort of configuration right in the application, um, for a site 176 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,400 owner. So we can control, these are all the blocks and I'll show you this on the blocks 177 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:24,180 page, but you know, essentially what blocks are created by default. And so tags and images 178 00:14:24,180 --> 00:14:29,580 forums, you know, I can create these, um, and have those available. I can also set my biases 179 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:35,060 and weighting. So I have result, um, biasing I can set here. And so what you see here is I 180 00:14:35,060 --> 00:14:38,500 have, you know, is I can, these are things that I can do in Drupal. I can promote something 181 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:43,220 to the homepage. I can make it sticky at the top of the list. And then I can have, you know, 182 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:48,180 have comments, then I can also control the bias things associated with that. So, you know, 183 00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:52,840 I've got a scale here from normal all the way up to 21 and I can, you know, do these, um, 184 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:59,060 uh, set these as I want my things to fix and then bias, the comment bias changes. So I want 185 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:04,560 more recent comments. That means it's an active topic, um, to be up. And then, you know, right 186 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,500 under that, maybe eight have more comments that, you know, things that are active. I can do that, 187 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:14,420 hit save. Suddenly now that's how my configuration will run. I can also do the same on weighting. 188 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:20,340 So, um, I can decide to, you know, how to weight different content types. So there's blogs, 189 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,480 there's our rides, our custom content type. And because of the type of community here, 190 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:29,360 I have that weighted highest. Um, I can also exclude things from that index. So, 191 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,580 you know, I may take out images. I don't want, you know, or a forum topic, something that might 192 00:15:33,580 --> 00:15:38,660 clutter that, uh, the index and the result page. So I can, uh, can do that as well here, 193 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,220 right. And the interface, the takeaway being that you can, uh, you can, you can encourage 194 00:15:43,220 --> 00:15:48,440 your user to find your users to find more interesting types of content that you want them to see rather 195 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,200 than just sort of having the system figure out what's interesting for them. 196 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,640 Exactly. And, and, you know, as compared to Drupal search, um, you know, there's a lot more, 197 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,940 uh, sort of granular controls here. And certainly, you know, if you spun up your own Apache 198 00:16:01,940 --> 00:16:06,380 solar instance, obviously you go to the next level of controls here, but this is, you know, 199 00:16:06,380 --> 00:16:12,100 what we've tried to do is balance, um, you know, ease of use for a site administrator with also some 200 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:18,080 granularity that they can have, um, they can have real, um, control over in, in the interface. 201 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,860 And then the same thing, um, on the things that are, uh, different fields for content types. 202 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:27,840 So, you know, taxonomy names and different, you know, things like their paths and the name, 203 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,360 the body, you know, what, where's the, where's the biasing? 204 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,360 Where's the waiting, um, come in to control. 205 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:38,300 How are these, uh, these, these sections determined? I mean, is that drawn from like the, uh, the, 206 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:43,420 the HTML on the page or, or sort of tagging things or what, what are these different items? 207 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:48,680 So these, these items are all, you know, these are all, um, the components of a content type, 208 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:54,640 um, on the site and there's, they're common across that. So things like, uh, a title and body and name, 209 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,920 you know, just come from all our crop and path alias are consistent across all content types. 210 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:07,120 You get some HTML tags based on H1, H2. Um, and then we also have things like taxonomy. So, 211 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:12,840 so if I have this weighting, the taxonomy names, so I'm applying a consistent weight across all my 212 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:18,140 taxonomies. And this site, I have three. Um, and then down here, if I say, you know what, 213 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:22,960 I, one of those taxonomies isn't relevant for search results, I can actually set this to omit 214 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:28,620 and then come down here and say taxonomy one, you know, I want that to be 21 and taxonomy two to 215 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:31,420 be, you know, something else like eight. The other thing I wanted to show in the administration 216 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:36,320 interface was the more like this. So this is the content recommendations piece. So again, 217 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,860 here, what I can do is, is very similar to the other ones. I can come in here. I have a more like 218 00:17:39,860 --> 00:17:45,980 this box. So I created on that. And then again, I can start to set some configuration here. So what 219 00:17:45,980 --> 00:17:51,420 fields to compare. So this is again, there's vocabulary two, vocabulary one, name and title, 220 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:57,120 some basic stuff. Um, I can say, you know, I also can, can say, you know, does something have to 221 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,020 happen a number of times before we recommend it as a content? So I can set some frequency, um, 222 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:08,860 requirements or length requirements, um, at the, and the configuration side to see how those blocks 223 00:18:08,860 --> 00:18:12,840 are displayed and when they're created. In administrator, I come over to the blocks page. So this is sort of 224 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,520 the, the, the under site building, we have the components that are in a site and it gives the 225 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:21,220 administrator the way to, you know, the ability to lay out a site. And so what you see here is, 226 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:26,460 is, um, a list of blocks. And then these yellow areas are all the different locations or regions that a 227 00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:31,880 block can be deployed in. And so what you see here is I've got, you know, all my different search 228 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:36,420 blocks that are created out of the box. I don't need to do anything. These are all generated by, um, 229 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:44,100 aqua search in our configuration here. So I can sort by content type, by user tags, difficulty author, 230 00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:47,980 you know, those are all things here. I can tweak how they're presented, you know, just by dragging 231 00:18:47,980 --> 00:18:54,380 these around. Um, I can control sort of where they go. I have it, my more recommendations. So these 232 00:18:54,380 --> 00:18:59,900 were all on sidebar first is on the left sidebar last was on the right. So I put more recommendations 233 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:06,000 over here. So, you know, the, the point here is that, um, to simplify that, to sort of give the 234 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,300 most common use cases for what people would use as filters on the site, um, and make that available 235 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:16,500 out of the box when you install the module. So, um, getting this up and running is, is very simple. 236 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:23,020 You just drop the module into your Drupal site. It creates the blocks on the fly. It gets, um, it 237 00:19:23,020 --> 00:19:27,700 creates the admin menus on the fly and really simplifies that process for someone looking to get 238 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:32,660 started. So that's sort of a, a demo site in action. So what I thought I'd do is, is so a real 239 00:19:32,660 --> 00:19:39,520 site. Um, so in a prior life, before I got involved in technology and Acquia, I used to brew beer for 240 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:44,700 living. So I, uh, in, uh, in order to keep up with that, I actually have a beer blog that I run. So 241 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:50,660 what I'm looking at here is my beer site, the beer observer, and we have sort of, um, a little bit 242 00:19:50,660 --> 00:19:55,300 more content to see what this looks like. So in this example, I searched on the term beer and it told me, 243 00:19:55,300 --> 00:20:00,100 told me I found 41 items. Again here, I've created a couple of things. So I have style as a choice 244 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,840 list in a content type. So we have beer reviews on the site. So you can see, you know, this is a 245 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:10,040 choice option. So we have all the filters here and I can show more things or show fewer, um, right on 246 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:17,640 my filter. Beer style tags are, are user generated tags. So they can come in and put whatever they want 247 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,760 in there as well. And then now here, here are a bunch of facets. Everyone can relate 248 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:28,880 to exactly many facets of beer. That's right. Um, we have categories of content type authors. 249 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:34,680 And again, we can sort. And so, you know, I'm a, I'm a, I like hoppy beers. So I want to look 250 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:39,840 at India pale ales and, you know, get a narrow list there and, and, uh, and see how those go. 251 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:44,640 Not surprisingly, I have content recommendations too. So, uh, in the case of beer reviews, 252 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,900 it's other beers on tap. So also on tap right up. But then I, what I can do here is I can come over 253 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:54,460 into the Acquia network. So what I'm looking at now is the Acquia network and I can go to my search 254 00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:59,780 page that tells me, so it gives me some information about how to get started and then, um, what's 255 00:20:59,780 --> 00:21:05,260 happening. So, you know, this is my demo site. I have 13 documents in the index and I can see my 256 00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:09,800 search pages, you know, you know, the results, it's a demo site. So it doesn't have a lot of content 257 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:17,560 here. If I flip over, um, to the beer observer site, I'll see a little bit more, um, information. 258 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,980 And so, um, one of the things that we're doing, so we see a little bit more over here. So 259 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:26,360 we're going to flip through this page and, you know, again, not a ton, uh, a ton of happening 260 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,220 here, but on a content with, on a site with a lot of content, there's a lot of information 261 00:21:30,220 --> 00:21:34,520 here. You can see what your common search terms are without results, with results. You can start 262 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:39,640 to, um, tweak your content associated. So it sort of works in, plugs well into your SEO strategy, 263 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:44,040 um, because you get real information. Each one of our subscription packages, basic, 264 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:51,000 professional and enterprise, um, has, will have a certain level of, uh, the Aqua search service 265 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,220 available to it. Um, the network service here. So, so some level of based on volume, the number of 266 00:21:56,220 --> 00:22:00,920 nodes you have, um, and potentially the number of queries that you're, you're getting on your site. 267 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,940 So some, you know, there'll be a basic service level with each one of those subscription packages. 268 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:09,020 And obviously the more you pay, the bigger that is. And then what we'll do is we'll establish 269 00:22:09,020 --> 00:22:15,580 premium tiers based on, again, volume here, the number of nodes you have. Um, and sort of in, 270 00:22:15,580 --> 00:22:19,500 in one of the goals of our beta program is to sort of get an understanding on our side and the 271 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:23,980 infrastructure side, you know, what does it cost to, to run that? If you have sites that have 272 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:29,780 millions of nodes, you know, um, you know, what is, what is the implication on our side for that? And then 273 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:34,440 what, you know, what, what, uh, what do we charge for that? So we're in the process of determining 274 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:39,520 that now, but at every subscription level, including as low as $200 a year, you can add 275 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:45,420 this to your site, um, and get search, you know, for a smaller, uh, smaller Drupal website. 276 00:22:45,740 --> 00:22:47,660 It shouldn't cost the beer observer too much. 277 00:22:48,340 --> 00:22:50,920 That's definitely, definitely not. 278 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,360 Yeah. Well, that's fantastic. Well, I appreciate you spending all the time to show this to us today. 279 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,800 Well, uh, Coté, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity, opportunity to do so. 280 00:23:00,140 --> 00:23:00,500 Absolutely.