Flexi-Search from Lucene

October 8, 2010

We have seen and experienced all types of searches, but here’s one simple yet smart search that uses Lucene.NET, a direct port of the popular open source Java Lucene project. It has all the features that you wanted your search to handle; synonyms, misspellings, prefixes, suffixes, result rankings, weighting, and others. John Sprunger discourses on his blog JSprunger.com about, “Getting started with Lucene.NET,” describing Lucene-based search as capable of indexing all types of content, “including files, database records, and web pages.” It can be tweaked as required and used for, “searching on ASP.NET web site, searching within a desktop app, as a web service search, or Windows service, etc.”

Embraced by biggies like EMC and Cisco, Lucene.NET has a highly abstracted class structure that allows ultimate flexibility, making it possible to change the way search works, to satisfy your clients. The article describes the procedure to create a simple search, illustrated with explanatory examples.

Harleena Singh, October 8, 2010

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