Site Search on Windows Server 2008 R2!

I am trying to implement search in our various ASP.NET websites that are all located on a particular web server that we control. The server is running IIS7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 32bit. I do NOT want to go third-party by using Google/Bing/etc APIs. I want to have an in-house solution for JUST our website directories (and not worry about searching through other documents elsewhere).

I have looked at Search Server 2010 Express, but that won't work because it is 1) 64bit, and 2) too much overhead for the tiny bit of websites we are wanting to search on. There is a 2008 Express edition that is x86 compatible, but I still think its way too much to install and run for what we are wanting to use it for.

What alternative, relatively light-weight, low-cost solutions are there? Any ideas?

The short answer is, without adding some Indexing capabilities to your sites, such as those offered by Search Server, you are not going to get a true search. For instance, you could implement a query against the database to allow searching of dynamic content from the database, but you are not going to be able to search static content of your pages, which you may well need to include.

How many websites, and how much content are we talking about?

Gary

It's about 15-20 sites, but they aren't huge sites. Mix of html/asp.net/database content. It's something that I just wanted to research to possibly see about implementing. Nothing that we need right now.

I was able to install a copy of Search Server 2008 but was not impressed by the amount of databases, sites, and virtual directories that were created in order to get a simple search running, and being that it was hard to locate because of Search Server 2010 taking over, I'm not sure if I want to get on that bandwagon since it seems like its already being phased out. Anyone find info on if or when Search Server 2010 will be supporting x86?

Hello,

Nope, I haven't found anything that would suggest that Search Server 2010 is available on anything but 64 bit. This seems to be a common requirement for a few of the 2010 applications that are shipping from Microsoft.

Gary