Implementing Search in .NET Applications

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Xavier Morera, and welcome to my course Implementing Search in. NET Applications. I am very passionate about teaching, and this specific topic that I will be covering in this course is very special to me for several reasons that include the passion that I have for search, as well as the fact that I have spent the last year working countless hours in implementing an API that is built using many of the techniques that I have learned during the years and now I will be teaching to you. I believe I can change the way that you'll look at this very powerful feature that is part of our daily life, search. As a fun fact, did you know that in general it is said that there are two types of search, search behind the firewall, for example, your corporate internet uses search to save money, while search outside the firewall is used to make money, for example, by ecommerce sites like eBay and Amazon. You know what they say, search is the new killer app. In this course, we're going to learn how to properly implement search getting started with learning how to set up your own search engine, learning how to interact with your search engine from your code. In this case,. NET and specifically C#. Then we're going to learn how to index documents and then retrieving them by querying a search engine. And then finally, we're going to learn to improve relevancy, namely getting better results with some additional techniques to improve the searching experience. By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a search API in C# with SolrNet using a free open source best-of-class search engine, Apache Solr. Before beginning the course, you should be familiar with coding in C#, and it is recommended that you know a thing or two about Solr, but it's not a prerequisite. I will give you enough to get started. I hope you join me on this journey to learn search with Implementing Search in. NET Applications course at Pluralsight.