full-text-search Archives

Which search technology to use with ASP.NET?

August 31, 2022 by Magenaut

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’s nothing to set up server-side), but what other ways are being used out there?

How hard is it to incorporate full text search with SQL Server?

August 27, 2022 by Magenaut

I am building a C#/ASP.NET app with an SQL backend. I am on deadline and finishing up my pages, out of left field one of my designers incorporated a full text search on one of my pages. My “searches” up until this point have been filters, being able to narrow a result set by certain factors and column values.