SearchEngine in C#

Building a milestone for a search engine to replace Windows Search, aiming to avoid Windows slowness.

Phase 1

Table of Contents

• Tokenizer
• Indexing
• Levenshtein Distance Implementation
• Token Comparer (Sorting Helpers)
• Search Prompt

The project is designed to allow any component to be replaced with a different implementation.

Phase 2

(Under development) Build a service to Index all files in the background. Handle actions through FileSystem watchers to track the location changes and avoid re-indexing.

Phase 3

(Under development) Build an Event Hook to read the input from Windows Explorer search bar and let the engine handle (C++/Shell) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/

search the indexed space and show the result including

• filename
• size
• location