Materials Search Engine — ECC Solutions

ECC Solutions built a search engine indexing materials from major Canadian hardware banners (Home Depot, Home Hardware, Rona, BMR, Canadian Tire) so contractors could compare prices without a flood of phone calls.

The solution: a continuous extract-index engine, a search web service, and a query/results site. I built the crawler for extraction, then defined the site architecture — choosing ASP.NET MVC 2.