I've been doing some work on using MSCMS2002 and have had to look at ways to implement search (by default it doesn't have it and requires that you buy a much expensive Sharepoint license) well, I revisited the nLucene project - this had stalled for a while but looks like it's back in development. Interestingly, one of the contributors seems to be Scott W.  - so I wouldn't be surprised if this became integrated with .TEXT in the near future... Anyway, take a look, it does seem incredibly cool and it would seem to benefit from the tons of development already exisitng for the Jakarta-Lucene Java version, even stating that the Java docs also apply to this version!

UPDATE: As Ryan Rinaldi pointed out in the comments,.TEXT 0.96 does have Lucene.NET (the new name for nLucene) already integrated, I was having a poke around the code today and it's pretty sweet. I reall recommend you check it out if you need a simple to implement, quick search engine for your site! Oh, and the next version of .TEXT will have an awesome search engine!

posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:39 PM | Print

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# re: nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET
Posted by Duncan Smart on 4/7/2004 4:23 PM
What about using Index Server built into the OS? The benefit the sharepoint search has is that it'll spider external sites - but for providing search of local stuff - Index server is designed for this. Or does MSCMS not let you access the content via the file system?
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# re: nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET
Posted by Scott Galloway on 4/7/2004 5:14 PM
Exactly, MSCMS stuff all says that you shouldn't try to access the DB at all and gives dire warning if you try it. What sharepoint gives you is a spider. There's other solutions like Mondosearch (which is very fancy with categories and stuff) - but again, overkill for what our client needs. I can get CMS to output HTML files then index them - but this again is a step I'd like to avoid...
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# re: nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET
Posted by Ryan Rinaldi on 4/7/2004 8:34 PM
.Text already is using Lucene .NET in the next version. .96 I believe.
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# re: nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET
Posted by Scott Galloway on 4/7/2004 9:01 PM
Ah...good to know...
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# re: nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET
Posted by DL on 9/21/2004 8:44 PM
The Lucene.NET project was closed, but the last open-source release can be found here: http://lucenedotnet.wz.cz.
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