Which search technology to use with ASP.NET?

Question

What\'s your preferred method of providing a search facility on a website? Currently I prefer to use Lucene.net over Indexing Service / SQL Server full-text search (as there

Answer 1

Has anyone tried Microsoft search server express?

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/default.aspx

I haven't tried it yet, but it could potentially be powerful.

From the site it looks primarily geared towards sharepoint users but given its sdk I don't see why you couldn't use it for a regular old site search