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

dtSearch is one we've often used, but I'm not really that big a fan of it.

Answer 2

We used both Lucene.net, Indexing Service and SQL Server full-text. For a project with large and heavy DB search functionality SQL search has an upper hand in terms of performance/resource hit. Otherwise Lucene is much better in all aspects.

Answer 3

you could use google, it's not going to be the fastest indexer but it does provide great results when you have no budget.