I need to make the advanced search webpart to search ONLY in the site where it is installed. Right now it searches all over the farm and gives a lot of results we don't want. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi, Have a look at below post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/c4908b3c-7456-4005-ae74-4c8cd2602c07 Hope this helps. Regards.

Is there any way to do it without having to create a new search scope? the thing is that We are doing this project for a major Forbes 500 corporation and to have a new scope created takes and act of congress here. So, if there is a different way, I would like to know. Thanks!

Creating the search scopes is the better way to go, even though it takes time.Aravind http://aravindrises.blogspot.com