On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Shai Gluskin shai@content2zero.com wrote:

Trying to understand how search works, both Google and Solr.

So lets say I have a node/1234. There are no links to it on example.com. However, links to it will dynamically show up in a view if the right choices are made by a user via exposed filters.

My guess is this won't be exposed to Google but would be exposed to Solr. Anybody know?

As is often the case, "it depends." Solr will definitely know about the node. Google might.

First, Google is starting to post HTML forms to get at more data.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-for...

Second, if the node has any taxonomy terms on it that are included in links somewhere, or it is available via an "archive" block or in a user's "tracker" page...then Google will find it.

Finally, if none of those apply you can use the XMLSitemap module to let Google (and other search engines) know about the content http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

Regards, Greg