From what you've said, I think you must be using SharePoint 2003 or earlier. With MOSS 2007 you can search everything in SharePoint using, as you put it, a "Google style search" with the advantage that you can also search - guess what - your email. Or your databases or old file storage.
If you've got duplicated documents with different versions spread around, you're clearly not using SharePoint as it should be used. A proper MOSS 2007 deployment will drastically reduce the amount of duplicated docs and versioning issues.
It's not just a repository. It's a collaboration tool, a project management tool, a records management tool, an electronic forms solution, a workflow engine, a business intelligence presentation layer, a search engine... I could keep going.
Sorry to sound like a sales pitch, but you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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