what is the alternate to windows indexing service (asp.net 2.0) ?

Question

I m working on a web project and I need do file content searching on DOC and PDF .
Due to some reason I cant use windows indexing service How I can do it with out crawling

each and every file from directory to directory and then reading them from start to end and

each time a file gets changes or added new file to search directory the search engin shoul

automatically detects the changes. How I can do it . If not

how can i restart my search catalog in windows indexing service programmtically.

surely there will be a solution to this problem kindely help me How I will be able to do it

hyder_master

Robert · Answer

Hyder Ali Actually the Indexing Service running on Windows Server 2003 is very good. It's no Google, but it runs well. Unfortunately there is not a lot of good documentation on Indexing Service out there. There should be no problem using it for your purposes. Indexing Service will not crawl pdf documents on it's own, however you can download this component from Adobe to crawl PDF documents, you can download it at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611. You will need to install it on the server, now Indexing Service will crawl your PDF's. As far as performance goes you will need to right click on the Indexing Service for the machine you are running it on and select All Tasks/Tune Performance. Click the Customize radio button and select customize, then move the Indexing slider all the way to the right for Instant. Hope this helps... Cheers Robert