Web Search Engine Needed for New NT System

[David Risner]

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Laura Guy wrote:

>  We're presently migrating off of our NeXTstep
>  system to WinNT, and the web search engine we
>  use to index our web site on NeXT (glimpse)
>  hasn't been ported to NT.
>  
>  Does anyone out there have any positive
>  recommendations for a replacement engine?  We just
>  need simple indexing and searching capability
>  (the simpler the better) and while the web site site
>  is quite large (about 300 meg and numerous hundreds
>  of documents), we have loads of diskspace
>  so index space is not a problem.

What about Microsoft's Index Server (formerly known as Tripoli)?  It's
free for use with the free IIS.  (Free once you pay for NT Server, of
course).  You can find out more about Index Server at
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/default.asp

It will index HTML, Office, and text documents.