http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/01/08/search-a-quick-round-up.aspxI've been meaning to have a play with Search Server since Viral demo'd it on the last roadshow. We have a downloadable VHD for it with a very good walk-through, I can say that honestly because I've just spent a couple of hours walking through it. Of courseen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/01/08/search-a-quick-round-up.aspx#2726042Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:34:10 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2726042Viral Tarpara<p>FAST complements Microsoft's search technologies by scaling search beyond 50 million documents which is the current peformance limitation. &nbsp;</p> <p>Search Server Express - no limits but scales to about 1 million docs</p> <p>Search Server/SharePoint Search - upto 50 million docs after which scalability is a complex engineering issue.</p> <p>FAST - Uber Enterprise </p> http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/01/08/search-a-quick-round-up.aspx#2745304Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:11:31 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2745304Sharon<p>Yup, we'll be covering databases - to mash or not to mash..., indexing PDFs and other non-MS content, how to tweak and improve relevancy, will probably touch on information architecture and metadata gotchas, and the social life of information (to quote a book title)... now I just need to free up a bit more than the 900Mb space remaining on my laptop to build the new demo :-)</p>