Actually, they switched to Lucene.NET a year ago: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/stack-overflow-search-now-81-less-crappy/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/

Actually, they switched to Lucene.NET a year ago: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/stack-overflow-search-now-81-less-crappy/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/stack-overflow-search-... It sounds as though the search indexing isn't done by the database server anymore.