What site search option for Chinese website?

[Lijin]

Does anyone know the best technology platform to use for internal site searches on a Chinese language web site?

[lammert]

Hi Lijin, first of all Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

What kind of architecture is the site currently running on? Apache or IIS; PHP, ASP, Java, etc. If the search function has to integrate with the current site it is often a good idea to choose something from the same architecture family.

[Lijin]

It is using ASP.

[lammert]

I'll see if one of our Microsoft platform experts can jump in to give you some advice on this issue.

[Lijin]

Thanks!

[bill]

I use the Google Custom Search Engine on my Chinese websites. It had the best search results of any of the packages I looked at. Operation doesn't seem to be affected by the recent Google troubles in China.

[Lijin]

Thanks very much for your help.

[phranque]

you might consider using Lucene.
How To Index non-English Languages using Lucene:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/IndexingOtherLanguages [wiki.apache.org]

sorry i don't have more to offer.
i was peripherally involved a few years ago with a multilanguage site that used KinoSearch, which is based on Lucene, and i believe that was due to the capability to handle chinese language search.

[Lijin]

I'll check it out. Thanks.