EasySearch
Overview
EasySearch is a new, inexpensive way to add full text search to EPiServer websites. Traditional search engine approaches are complex and costly, often requiring the investment of not only license purchases, but also services to configure and deploy them. EasySearch bucks this trend by making search simple to install and simple to configure whilst still maintaining flexibility and the search features users expect on professional websites.
EasySearch provides EPiServer web site developers with a simple way to add powerful and flexible full text search on their website. EasySearch gives EPiServer web site developers a simple, powerful toolkit to enable full text search on any EPiServer website. It provides web parts, an Admin Mode plug-in and a flexible configuration model, enabling search to be configured in minutes!
EasySearch is a project written exclusively by NetworkedPlanet but hosted by BV Network AS's EPiCode project on CodeResort.
Features
- Event-driven indexing - no more inefficient site crawling
- Provides out-of-the-box full text search of a web site through supplied ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts
- Admin plug-in allows simple re-indexing and search testing
- Configured with XML with Intellisense support in Visual 2005
- Generic indexing and searching API allows the back-end search engine to be switched without changes to code
- Easy access to the Lucene API allows access to the full power of the most popular open-source search engine
Getting Started
Technical information and ordering information for EasySearch is maintained on the EasySearch Code Resort page. EasySearch can be purchased through BV Network AS. No license is required for non-commercial and project development purposes though, so there's nothing to stop you getting going with EasySearch right away!
To start working with EasySearch, go to http://www.epieasysearch.com. You'll need to join CodeResort and request access to the EPiCode project to access the EasySearch downloads.