CMS search with Mondosoft

We started a CMS project a couple of weeks ago which needed some search functionality, so we decided to go for Mondosearch from Mondosoft. I really like some things about this this product:

• All the functionality is completely programmable in .Net
  
• It works very fast


• The administration console is easy to use and completely webbased
  
• Support from mondosoft is excellent - I got a response by email for a problem in less than 15 minutes... amazing

There are however some downsides as well:

• The price tag is pretty steep


• When you make some configuration errors - your code will crash with not so helpfull error messages


• You have to change a lot of security settings to make the product work


• The information in the knowledgebase on their site needs some updating

In the next couple of postings I will explain some issues we ran into.