Examine

Examine uses Lucene as its search and index engine. Searching using Examine with Lucene can be very powerful and fast.

What is Examine?

Examine allows you to index and search data quickly. Examine is a library that sits on top of Lucene.Net, a high performance search engine library. Examine provides APIs to make searching and indexing as straight forward as possible. Umbraco provides a further layer on top, UmbracoExamine, that opens up the Umbraco-specific APIs for indexing and searching content and media out of the box.

Examine is provider based so it is extensible and allows you to configure your own custom indexes if required. The backoffice search in Umbraco also uses this same search engine, so you can trust that you're in good hands.

Quick start

Get up and running with Examine straight away with this quick start guide

Terminology

Describes the different terms and objects used in Examine such as Indexers, Searchers, Index Set, etc...

Examine Management in the backoffice

Provides an overview of the available Examine functionality available directly within the Umbraco backoffice

Overview & Explanation - "Examining Examine by Peter Gregory"

A detailed overview from top to bottom of how to use Examine

Full configuration markup example

Shows all configuration options with an explanation for each

API - Examine Manager

Describes the singleton object which exposes all of the index and search providers which are registered in the configuration of the Umbraco application.