I currently use SQL Server to store products in a large catalog web site. I'd like to rebuild the simple categorization we have to something with tags & facets so that users can filter down to relevant subsets as quickly as possible. I should NOT do this myself. Without going too far afield (VM to host level 3 aeai) does anyone know of a good library or framework to manage all the twiddly bits?
Thanks!
Jim
I've created a custom .NET faceted search for 3 sites now, getting a little better at it each time. I'm at the point now where I can copy a lot of ideas and code from past implementations to save myself time. But it is definitely time consuming if you're literally starting from scratch.
It is expensive and probably not what you're looking for, but the only faceted search engine I know of that's for sale is the end-to-end solution that Endeca provides. Unfortunately I don't know of a cheap or free .NET faceted search engine out there.
UPDATE: It looks there's also one called FAST ESP.