---
title: "Taking notice of Lucene: A searching & indexing library"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/20/taking-notice-of-lucene-a-searching-amp-indexing-library.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/20/taking-notice-of-lucene-a-searching-amp-indexing-library.html"
published: "2005-03-20T21:21:00"
updated: "2005-03-20T21:21:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Cool sites"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Lucene is an indexing search engine. It's in Java, but it has ports to other languages including several for .NET . One of those several, dotLucene looks very well maintained and some great demos appear on the site. So…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Taking notice of Lucene: A searching & indexing library

By Roy Osherove March 20, 2005 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 20, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Lucene is an indexing search engine. It's in Java, but it has ports to other languages including [several for .NET](http://openlucene.net/).

One of those several, dotLucene looks very well maintained and some great demos appear on the site.

So how useful is it? Well, if you're a careful reader, you'll notice that on the openLucene site, there's a small list of applications that use the Lucene for .NET engine. One of those is the now very-well-known-since-microsoft-bought-them [LookOut](http://www.lookoutsoft.com/) (email indexing addin for Outlook).

Looks like it's worth checking out.

\[via [Larkware](http://www.larkware.com/dg2/TheDailyGrind582.html)\]

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