The site search button
Do you remember the days when every top-notch web site featured a search link of some kind – often a text box with a magnifier glass next to it? With global search engines getting very comprehensive the strategies of enabling local web search have shifted.
Yet, if you are still earning to provide a search box for your web site – you will be happy to know – Windows 2008 R2 Web Server edition contains everything needed to get that working; no purchasing of any additional software is necessary.
In the book “Configuring Windows 2008 R2 Web Server” by Sergey Nosov, in the chapter “Indexing Services for IIS” we will show you how to make the good old-fashioned web site search work. We will also tell you about modern alternatives that may be better suited for your web site.