Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Spiess wrote:

> I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and 
> google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a 
> server so that many can connect to it and search?

AFAIK Beagle and Tracker are free software.

However, nothing beats Google Desktop.  It's changed my work life 
enormously!  I'm forced to use that other, horrible OS and its even 
worse mail client, but by indexing the whole lot everything is just a 
very quick search away.

Google Desktop can be pointed at network drives, so it'll index those 
for you too.

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
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