[SunRescue] FAST Database or search engine?

[Paul Khoury]

>I didn't look around too long, but we use Excite for Web Servers 
>(downloadable from the excite site, or was). Super easy to configure and 
>fairly quick on about the same scale of text (25,000 news stories) on a 
>670/MP running four 40 MHz processors. The searches are indexed, which 
>may not be what you want, and normally take about 5 or 6 seconds.
>
That's not bad - anything that's that's around that time frame is good.
How exactly does indexing work?