Re: [Mscore-developer] MuseScore.org to the next level: sponsoring & fund raising

[Thomas B. <tho...@gm...>]

Google Custom Search is indeed a great service but the level of 'customizing'
is rather limited. Google would have a very hard time coming up with 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3287386/faceted-search.png faceted search  that
lets you filter by language (10 at this moment), content type (handbook
pages, menu pages, forum posts, ...), and other fields. With Acquia search,
we can also give bias to certain properties when ordering the search results
and specify here which fields are more important when searching. While more
experimenting needs to be done with these settings to serve better results,
it's clear that not only 
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-google-study-on-speed-in-search.html
speed matters for serving search results  but also the level of accuracy.

Acquia is not only useful for its search service, it makes also life easier
of the website maintainer: 
- it comes with a captcha service which is used for the registration form (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/musescore/3528731243/ statistics ), 
- musescore.org is monitored (btw just after you mentioned that the website
was out, I checked Acquia and indeed, 
http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3287386/musescore-heartbeats.png musescore.org
was out for 34 minutes ),
- the website usage is 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/musescore/3443565443/in/photostream/ monitored 
- when new software updates are available for Drupal core as well as contrib
modules (musescore.org has 49 modules), it sends a notification and it keep
track which modules are patched for musescore.org specifically.

Considering all this,  http://acquia.com/product-matrix the basic Acquia
Network subscription  is worth every penny compared to the work hours (i.e.
cost) it takes away. 


octatone wrote:
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> Thomas Bonte wrote:
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>> Added to this comes the fact that the MuseScore.org search engine is
>> currently delegated to  http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-search
>> Acquia Hosted Search  which is currently offered in a free beta but that
>> trial period is coming to an end. 
>> 
> 
> Why not use a Google Custom Search engine?
> 
> http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
> 

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