CS4 - using bridge as a DAM application? (metadata question)

Hello,
I work within the marketing department of a jewelry company that has about 50,000 images on a shared drive and server. There are 10 of us, and we are all running CS4.
I am wondering, is there ANY way, that if I apply metadata/keywords to a photograph, that I could possibly share that information with other users in my work group? So far, I am able to add keywords to my jewelry very easily, but have not been able to access it in a differnet computer connected to the same server. Any way we could do this? Is there any plug-in or simple application that would enable bridge to do this?
Thank you-

Thanks for doing that search for me- I got some good information out of it. But unfortunately, it still doesn't work right. Even by exporting my Keyword list and cache, other users can not find my files unless they have already previously opened the image once. Very frustrating! I read this, but I don't understand it:
"As I understand it, indexing builds a database that P Bridge uses to find files and match them to thumbnails. It seems that Bridge doesnt use the operating system FAT or file table when it does searches. When searching for a file, Bridge goes to its index to look for it, not the operating system. If its not in the index, bridge cant find it unless you tell it to look for in the un-index files, then it goes to the operating systems file system."
How do I search unindexed information in bridge?

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