How do you Index Files for Fast Searches?

Question

Nowadays, Microsoft and Google will index the files on your hard drive so that you can search their contents quickly.

What I want to know is how do they do this? Can yo

Answer 1

You could always look into something like Apache Lucene.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.