Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index?

Blinocac writes "I am organizing the IT documentation for the agency I work for, and we would like to make a searchable document index that would render results based on meta tags placed in the documents, which include everything from Word files, HTML, Excel, Access, and PDF's." What methods or tools have others seen that work? Anything to avoid?

Gee I don't know..

[Anonymous Coward]

You're the one gettin' paid, you figure it out.

BOFH

[wilymage]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/05/the_bofh_content_management_system/ [theregister.co.uk]

Upload it to the web

[omgamibig]

Let google do the indexing!

Re:Livelink

[Ajehals]

You are in marketing aren't you?

(I'm sold anyway)

Re:Lucene

[mynickwastaken]

From the Nutch! web site: "Search this site with Google" ;-)

Re:Lucene

[Thuktun]

Yes, they have. In my previous job we had to search 2 terrabytes [...]

...of good ole down-to-earth data.

Re:Gee I don't know..

[tha_mink]

It's true. I finish a double major in University, worked in a relevent field the whole time, have excellent references, and now I can't find work... Hire me and I will do this for you.

Perhaps it's your grammar?