Search engine for .net
c#, search-engine
Solution
I have used dtSearch in the past which I know has a web crawler built into it. It doesn't come with a front end control though, it's strictly a search engine. You need to write your own results control. It does have a powerful query language though that lets you score on multiple dimensions depending on how you set up your indexes. It also has a decent .NET API to work with.
I don't know that this is any less complicated than Lucene though. So then I start to wonder what complications you are hoping to avoid.
Problem
I am looking for a search engine that can be used for sites. Sometimes we dont want to use google embedded search or the complication of lucene. I run in to these requests: Crawl based search Rating and ranking of content based on content types Searching documents like pdf and docs etc.. I dont mind if it is a commercial control that we have to purchase but I would like to be able to integrate it nicely in to some of these use cases