Search Engines for Your Intranet or Small Business?

coreboarder asks: "Google recently revamped their nifty little Google Mini. It now does 100,000 documents of 220 different formats, makes your bed, and pours your beer. Where I work we have a reasonably large amount of technical data files (~80,000) of varying formats stored on a number of Windows 2000 and 2003 servers. File access is handled by permissions on the containing folder(s). Over time duplication has crept in because people cannot find what they need where they expect it to be. The $3,000 price point on the Google Mini is very attractive but is their a better way of making files and their content easily findable on a 1000 node network while still retaining their security? We also use ht://dig but it cannot handle all the file formats that would be involved here." In that same vein, Gneral Tsao asks: "As an IT worker for a small research business, I'm trying to find a good text search engine for our subscriber facing publications. After much searching, I've found a few prospects such as Mnogosearch (which we currently use), Nutch, and Swish-e, but really no discussion about or comparison between them. This seems like a job for the Slashdot community. An ideal solution for me would be able to handle 20,000 or so pages, have a customizable PHP frontend, and allow for some amount of control over categorization." Any suggestions?

Comments

Boutell

[Intron]

I run the Boutell search engine on my Company's internal website.

Wimp.

[Anonymous Coward]

Give the users a shell and tell them to read the grep manpage.