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What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site [closed]

I am thinking of changing my web site's homegrown search engine. Before I break out Visual Studio, I wondered if anyone can suggest an alternative that gives me what I need. This being:

  • Works with an ASP.NET site (is a .NET project)
  • Creates a file-based index
  • Fast search across hundreds or thousands of pages
  • Performs word-stemming to find variations upon words
  • Gives full control over the output styles
  • Is cheap (or better still, free!)
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BlackWasp Avatar asked Sep 28 '08 18:09

BlackWasp


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2 Answers

The .NET version of Lucene is what we've been using. It meets all of your criteria.

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Micky McQuade Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 14:10

Micky McQuade


You can't really beat Google Site Search for this. It's fully customizable - and no need for embedding or maintaining.

EDIT: found this ASP.NET opensource search engine that you can take and run with, In response to your comment about knowing what google does, this is well documented and they have TONS of webmaster tools for you.

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TheSoftwareJedi Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 16:10

TheSoftwareJedi