SearchBlackBox SDK is the Full-Text Search Engine SDK for .NET.

Customize searching with modern search techniques

Boolean, fuzzy, proximity, range and others queries are all at your service. Read more...

Text-Based Search Engine

Any structured and unstructured text data
SearchBlackBox SDK allows to index all kinds of documents whether they are structured or unstructured.

Regardless of initial data and their location
SearchBlackBox SDK search engine doesn't depend on the initial data. Once you added the data to the index SearchBlackBox SDK search engine won't refer to the initial data for the search. SearchBlackBox SDK search engine works with the index only.

Document Formats
SearchBlackBox SDK works with text data and the data which may be converted into the text format. SearchBlackBox SDK doesn't restrict the used text extractors and parsers. You can use any tool convenient to solve your problem.

Flexible Indexing

Any Indexing Algorithms
SearchBlackBox SDK makes it possible to implement any data indexing algorithm. It can be indexing by schedule, indexing on request or any other data indexing algorithm.

File-Based Index
SearchBlackBox SDK uses file-based indexes, which makes it possible to easily copy them from one computer to another, save them to compact disks, recover them in case of all sorts of failures, archive them, etc.

Read-only indexes
SearchBlackBox SDK can work in the read-only mode, which allows you to use your applications on CDs and read-only environments.

Fielded index
SearchBlackBox SDK allows you to create an index with any structure depending on its source data, search requirements, requirements to displaying results and other requirements. It is up to you to specify what fields should be added to your index.

Control the output

SearchBlackBox SDK allows you to control the way results are provided to the user. You can easily bind the search results to standard Windows Forms and Web controls and automatically highlight matches in the search results.