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Server Name Mapping and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)
28 May 10 09:09 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) and Server Name Mapping are two features SharePoint provides to alter the URLs returned in search results - a common practice used by many companies for their internal and external users. Both features are available in both...

Filed under: Search Server, Connectivity, Developer, SharePoint, Results, search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

How to: Customize the Thesaurus in SharePoint Search and Search Server
23 September 08 05:49 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

The thesaurus is an xml file that provides users with a means of automatically expanding or rewriting their queries to include synonyms, acronyms, etc. For example, in a chemical company, product ID 1234, oxygen, O2 and LOX could all refer to the same...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, ITPro, Query, Documentation, SharePoint, Results

How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency
02 September 08 07:38 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Tracking query latencies can be made easier through the use of the products ULS logs.   Below you will find information on how to enable the specific ULS traces as well as information for how to parse the logs.  The primary usage of this...

Filed under: ITPro, Query, Perf & Scale, Results

Announcing Faceted Search v2.5
12 August 08 05:50 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Starting Faceted Search 2.5, the solution relies on Microsoft Enterprise Library to address common software requirements in caching, logging, exception handling, policy injection etc., etc. More importantly, the 2.5 is a ground breaking release that is...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, Announcements, ITPro, Developer, Samples, SharePoint, Search Community Toolkit, Results

Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API
22 May 08 02:45 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

One of the more discussed topics I’ve seen (and struggled with myself) is around the concept of obtaining the total number of hits in a search results when working with the MOSS API. For instance, when I search for “sales forecast” in...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, Query, Developer, Samples, SharePoint, Results

Search Relevance Tuning
14 May 08 08:37 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as the global ranking parameters, property weights and property length normalization) isn't something that you'll want to do without a lot of thought...

Filed under: ITPro, Query, Tools, Results, Ranking, Relevance