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How easy/expensive is it to adopt Google Mini/Google Appliance for intranet search?

Out of curiosity, is anyone here using Google Mini or Google Search Appliance to provide intranet search? Was it easy to set up? What kind of prices do they charge (ball park figure, I'm sure it depends on the customer)?
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Windows Search 4 web interface

I have Windows Search 4 running on an installation of Server 2008 x64, indexing two specific directories. Is it possible to have a web interface to query this catalog? On an older server (Server 2003) we are using the Indexing Service and the…
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Web based file search in the lan?

I would like to search files in my lan easily. (over 500k files on SMB shares, it would take ages with other ways) I mean, i just need to do a quick search on file names, i don't care content indexing at all, as most of my files are in a proprietary…
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Small (Business) Server - Microsoft Windows Search or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Users would like to able to quickly search shared folders etc. on the server. What are the PRO's and CON's of these two technologies?
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Remote search system for samba shares

I have several shares residing on a samba server in a small business environment that I would like to provide search facilities for. Ideally this would be something like google desktop with some extra features (see below), but lacking this the idea…
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Is there an utility for editing the MS Search Server 2008 registry settings?

Microsoft Search Server 2008 and other MS serach products are tuned by editing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon registry key. Is there an utility for doing the same?
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IIS anonymous authentication issue in Microsoft Search Server Express

I am setting up Windows Search Server Express on Windows Server 2008. Here is Windows Search Server Express information. By default, it is using Windows authentication which needs server local Windows user name and account when access the search…
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enterprise search engine deployment asking for advice

I am asked to either deploy or develop an enterprise (intranet) search engine which could index all web pages of a couple of internal servers, and have a search portal to display all related content, like what Google is doing but for intranet. Any…
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Error in Search Server Express 2008

I've installed Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, and as a part of it, WSS 3.0 And for 6 month, it runs without fail, until yesterday. The search site refuses to perform search, and Search Central Administration gives cryptic error…
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Add a web based document search to my debian fileserver

I have a Samba-based fileserver with lots of gigs of data on it, mostly Word, Excel, OpenOffice and PDF documents. I've set up a simple web based search interface (Apache, PHP, mlocate) that just goes on filepaths + mtime. It works, for that, but it…
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Is there a way to avoid reindexing files on each Microsoft Search Service crawl?

I need to index heavyweight format files with Microsoft Search Service. I created an IFilter and a backend that stores indexing results. So now if extracting text from some given file takes too long and the IFilter is shut down (the built-in…
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"Error in the Site Data Web Service." when performing crawl

Installed SharePoint Services v3 (SP2, october 2009 cumulative updates, Language Pack), attached to a content database I had previously (all works). Installed Search server 2008 Express (with language pack) on top of WSS and crawl does not work.…
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Windows Server 2019: Can't add locations to index for windows search

i'm obviously far too stupid, but maybe someone has mercy ;-) System: Windows Server 2019 Standard DC Tested Users: administrator Problem: Windows search Server index only includes one useless location: Internet Explorer History. As a result there…
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials Search not working on "Shared Folders"

On Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, the built in shared folder named "Shared Folders"(located in "C:\\DFSRoot\Shared Folders") that contains a virtual folder(Not sure what the proper name is as it is not a shortcut) folders to the actual shared…
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Search server (sharepoint) permissions

I have created an ASP.NET web application that is calling the search.asmx service on a Search Server 2008 Express instance. When i connect using a domain account that is a local admin on the search box everything works great, however this isn't a…
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