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I want to create a search engine that retrieves documents and content of documents (word, excel, etc) very quickly.
Logically, as everyone knows this, whenever a user needs information he types the word in this engine and the system will search all the files of the server whose content contains the word matching the criteria.
I do not really know what to do with this? Do I require a small html page or a web application? What do you recommend?
Use a document management system. A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of documents. Document management systems commonly provide storage, versioning, metadata, security, as well as indexing and retrieval capabilities. The main functions of DMS are Indexing, Storing and Structuring Documents.
Source: Wikipedia
You can focus your search on Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that include, Internet Explorer based collaboration functions, process management modules, search modules and a document-management platform. SharePoint can be used to host web sites that shares business documents as well as host applications such as blogs.
Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.
With Search Engine Studio you can create a company Intranet search which will be accessible from all computers on your network with a standard web browser. This is possible even if no HTTP server (e.g. IIS) is configured. It is also very easy to automate the process of updating the search databases e.g. daily or weekly.
You just need to use Search Engine Studio to index the Intranet documents (HTML pages, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint or Acrobat PDF documents). If you want to limit access to certain search resources to specific user groups, you should create a few sets of databases.
Source: xtreeme.com