Index server - example websites?

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Jeremy

I am thinking of subscribing-- for an extra $4 per month-- to my hosting
company's Index Server service. Right now I use FP Search which is
inadequate.

Please could you point me to a website that uses Index Server searching, so
I can see what it looks like and how well it works?

Many thanks for your help! Jeremy
 
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Mark Fitzpatrick

Jeremy,
If you want to see how well it works, you can actually see it
working whenever you search for a document in Windows 2000/XP. Index Server
(or Indexing Services as it's known in Win XP and Win 2003) is really just
an engine for handling the searches. You'll need your own scripts to
generate an interface. It does it's job exceedingly well though and provides
tons of information about the documents it finds. If I remember correctly,
it will also index documents such as Word documents. With the addition of a
filter (which your host may have) it will also index the contents of PDF
files as well.

There is a decent starting article at:
http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/indexserver/default.asp

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
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Tina Clarke

Jeremy said:
I am thinking of subscribing-- for an extra $4 per month-- to my hosting
company's Index Server service. Right now I use FP Search which is
inadequate.

Please could you point me to a website that uses Index Server searching, so
I can see what it looks like and how well it works?

Many thanks for your help! Jeremy
Click to expand...

Does your host provide asp or php?

In that case go get the http://frontlook.com search engine ... it will use
either and search across subwebs too ... it's easy to use as well and you
can have search only those pages you want searched it's not that expensive
and certainly cheaper than paying every year for a price that might go up...
you pay for the product only once.... I use it on my sites and I like it
very much it also adds in to FrontPage.

hth Tina


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