I am thinking of changing my web site’s homegrown search engine. Before I break out Visual Studio, I wondered if anyone can suggest an alternative that gives me what I need. This being:
- Works with an ASP.NET site (is a .NET project)
- Creates a file-based index
- Fast search across hundreds or thousands of pages
- Performs word-stemming to find variations upon words
- Gives full control over the output styles
- Is cheap (or better still, free!)
The .NET version of Lucene is what we’ve been using. It meets all of your criteria.