Search engines for networks?

From: Paul Berger <sanepsycho_at_globaldialog.com>
Date: Wed Apr 7 12:21:43 2004

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:41, Cini, Richard wrote:
> JC-
>
> I quick perusal of Microsoft's Web site reveals that this service is
> installed as part of Internet Information Server and/or Index Server. It is
> very Web-oriented, meaning that an HTML "search" page would programmatically
> query the index and produce a result. Index Server (a separate product) has
> built-in querying.
>
> I don't know if the IIS Indexing service can index anything other
> than what's directly under wwwroot (the main Web site parent directory). I
> looked at the man pages for swish-e and it will index anything that is under
> single parent directory (which could be ".\users"). There doesn't appear to
> be any way to index two independent trees, though.

You can create multiple indexes of different directory trees and then
you can combine them into one index. I've never done this, but the
documentation says it can be done with some caveats. It can also do http
indexing wich I use to generate indexes for various intranet sites
around the company, http indexing is not as fast as file indexing, but
more flexable.

I do wish that swish-e supported incremental indexing and you could have
it only re-index certain documents. Possibly someday.

Paul
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 12:21:43 BST