# nLucene - full text search crawler / engine for .NET

<datetime class="hidden">2004-07-05T00:00</datetime>
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I've been doing some work on using MSCMS2002 and have had to look at ways to implement search (by default it doesn't have it and requires that you buy a much expensive Sharepoint license) well, I revisited the [nLucene project](http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedotnet/) - this had stalled for a while but looks like it's back in development. Interestingly, one of the contributors seems to be [Scott W.](http://scottwater.com/blog/)  - so I wouldn't be surprised if this became integrated with .TEXT in the near future... Anyway, [take a look](http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedotnet/), it does seem incredibly cool and it would seem to benefit from the tons of development already exisitng for the [Jakarta-Lucene Java version](http://www.javaranch.com/newsletter/200404/Lucene.html), even stating that the Java docs also apply to this version!

UPDATE: As [Ryan Rinaldi](http://blogs.geekdojo.net/ryan) pointed out in the comments,[.TEXT 0.96](http://dottextwiki.scottwater.com/default.aspx/Dottext.DevelopersStartHere)does have [Lucene.NET](http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedotnet/) (the new name for nLucene) already integrated, I was having a poke around the code today and it's pretty sweet. I reall recommend you check it out if you need a simple to implement, quick search engine for your site! Oh, and the next version of .TEXT will have an awesome search engine!