With all the hoopla about VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005, people sometimes forget that we still have to solve problems using today's technologies. The SQL Server 2000 Full-Text Search Deployment White Paper is a document that helps you better understand a technology that is already out there, focusing on the following areas:

• The hardware and operating system requirements for efficient full-text
  search performance.
• Full-text search architecture.
• Full-text search administration.
• How to monitor full-text search performance.