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Quotient
Quotient

Reputation: 4055

Search engine for .net

I am looking for a search engine that can be used for sites. Sometimes we dont want to use google embedded search or the complication of lucene.

I run in to these requests: Crawl based search Rating and ranking of content based on content types Searching documents like pdf and docs etc..

I dont mind if it is a commercial control that we have to purchase but I would like to be able to integrate it nicely in to some of these use cases

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4542

Answers (3)

rcravens
rcravens

Reputation: 8390

There used to be Lucene.net. Recently the status of this project is becoming questionable (not certain of the details). Here is the site: https://lucenenet.apache.org/

Looks like you can still download the code. Probably not much development going forward.

Bob

Upvotes: 3

Mikos
Mikos

Reputation: 8553

You should look at Apache Solr (built using Lucene) - it offers a RESTful interface for integrating into .NET or whatever platform you prefer. It offers all the goodies could ask for without concern for compatibility Java .NET versions etc.

You can easily integrate Solr into your .NET app using SolrNet

Upvotes: 2

Chuck
Chuck

Reputation: 8272

I have used dtSearch in the past which I know has a web crawler built into it. It doesn't come with a front end control though, it's strictly a search engine. You need to write your own results control. It does have a powerful query language though that lets you score on multiple dimensions depending on how you set up your indexes. It also has a decent .NET API to work with.

I don't know that this is any less complicated than Lucene though. So then I start to wonder what complications you are hoping to avoid.

Upvotes: 2

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