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What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site

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!)
Solution

  • The .NET version of Lucene is what we've been using. It meets all of your criteria.