Hi, May I know what are the best practices for implementing a site search in ASP .net web app. The user should be able to enter some keywords and get related links with the keyword. I have just started researching. It would be great if you put on your ideas.
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If its a small public site, you're better off using Google as your search engine with their Custom Search engine program.
This isn't an option with an internal site that Google can't see, obviously. If your content is in a database, I've heard good things about Lucine. SQL Server 2008's Full Text search features work rather well, too, if you're on that platform. I think that's what SO uses for its search. Or Jeff played with it at one point and had good things to say. Don't know if they're still using it.
Tim Coker
2010-06-09 18:22:07
If you do have an internal site, you can always purchase a Google Search Appliance (http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html).
Chris Shouts
2010-06-09 18:30:07
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It all depends on where your data is stored: database or static pages.
For the former, I'd use Lucene.NET (check out the SubText blog in which the latest release has a good implementation). For the latter I'd use dtSearch to crawl the site to create an index which you can search across.
Ted
2010-06-09 18:22:33
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If you are using database for storing the content, you can use SQL Server Full Text Search Language functionality which is containing bunch of tables and then you can search against that. We used to this approach before.
See for more detail: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-server-full-text-search-language-features/
dewacorp.alliances
2010-06-10 03:57:37