Search
The importance of a powerful search to find what you need plays a key part in the daily quest for information. To that end, organizing and customizing your SharePoint search to deliver the best information across your enterprise.
- Break down scopes and material weighted by a user's need
- Quickly deliver the most important documents to those seeking them
- Break down requirements for searches based on departments and responsibilities
- Find the information you need in seconds
- No more memorizing network locations and forgetting UNC paths
- Improved ranking and user experience
- Connectors to search SharePoint, fileshare, public folder, and database content (through Microsoft’s Business Data Catalog)
- An extensible framework for searching other repositories (third-party products already exist for many of today’s records management systems)
- A customizable user interface
- People search
- Administrative tools for improving search results such as source ranking, best bets, and content targeting
Effective search is essential for your users to find information or products quickly. Contrary to what most search engine companies will tell you, there isn't one search solution available that fits perfectly for all companies. As a result, we work with you to determine what kind of searches you need to conduct — enterprise searches, website searches, or highly customized searches. Then we help you select, implement, and optimize the solution most capable of achieving your goals.
When it comes to enterprise search, SharePoint delivers a powerful suite of tools to handle the challenge. You now have a compelling Microsoft solution to help you manage information overload and information insight and discovery.
Interactive Search Experience
Experience a richer search experience with flexible navigation, refinement and related searches. Both Standard and FAST Search for SharePoint get query completion, spell checking, wild cards and more. FAST enhances this experience enabling feature content for common queries and providing more flexible navigation and document thumbnails and previews including in slide navigation of PowerPoint presentations which is a common end user scenario.
Relevance
Out-of-box ranking was improved and the relevance factors were expanded including social data such as tagging and usage (clicks). FAST Search adds more configurable set of relevance inputs for custom applications and specialized corpuses.
People Search
Great improvements on people finding based on social networking and expertise algorithms and tailored user experience for people including getting views of authored content. As users frequently do not know or recall the spelling of people’s names, a new phonetic search algorithm was built that works much better than previous approaches to spell checking for names.
Connectivity
Lots of data lives outside SharePoint so connector were expanded and improved to index web sites, file servers, SharePoint, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Documentum and FileNet. The updated Business Connectivity Services (previously the BDC) described below makes it much easier to index an arbitrary source such as a custom database. You can create this search connection without code using SharePoint Designer.
Scale and Platform Flexibility
Significant performance and scalability improvements were made through search technology. Optimizing for 64-bit helped but also partitioned indices and scale-out query servers were introduced in SharePoint search this release.
SharePoint Fast Search
FAST scales-out even further and has significantly more pipeline extensibility to handle the largest collections and most complex value-added processing and search applications. Both end users and IT staff will be immediately excited about the new capabilities supporting hundreds of millions of documents with great index freshness and query latency. We can help with Fast Search Monitoring, Fast Search Planning, and Fast Search Index Schema Design.
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