Replacement for Microsoft Index Server?

Question

We're moving a legacy .ASP application to a new hosting provider that doesn't support Microsoft Index Server, on which one portion of the site depended. The application has a directory tree containing around 10,000 documents (text, MS Word and PDF) whose contents need to be indexed and to be searchable.

The application is staying classic .ASP for now but the search portion could be written in anything. We tried a tool called SiteSearchASP.Net but that number of documents was outside its reach.

A Google appliance is outside the client's budget, and these documents need to stay private so Google search isn't an option.

Anyone have experience with anything that might work?

Answer 1

Perhaps "Windows Search"? It's the successor to Indexing Service.

Answer 2

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is free, much like the other great express products. Easy to configure, powerful and definitely within your budget ($0)

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server.aspx

-Oisin

Answer 3

Try Lucene.NET http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37059/lucene-net-and-sql-server