The key to any search software is based on how you name your files. Traditional searches will be limited, especially if want to search within pdf or tif files. Windows search will search within Microsoft documents, but you'll have to OCR all the files to get the functionality within PDF's, tifs, or traditional scanned documents. Google search appliances won't even search within the files as of yet.
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