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Business Data Search in SharePoint 2010: Crawling associated external content types
09 March 10 01:48 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Business data associations are widely used to fetch related external content (ex. data from two sql tables connected by a foreign key or an email that contains attachments) and display it in SharePoint webparts. SharePoint Search 2010 ships with new features...

Filed under: Connectivity, SharePoint, enterprise search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010, crawling

Innovation on Linux and UNIX
04 February 10 05:19 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Innovation is at the heart of our enterprise search strategy, and a commitment to innovation is what brought FAST and Microsoft together. When we announced the acquisition two years ago, we said that we were committed to cross-platform innovation—that...

Filed under: Announcements, Support, FAST, vision, enterprise search, FAST ESP, linux, unix

The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 - Query Interfaces
20 November 09 06:39 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

SharePoint 2010 includes a number of features that make the platform easier to use for developers. An improved Visual Studio integration, the addition of LINQ to the SharePoint platform, sandboxing for deployment, and the new developer dashboard are just...

Filed under: Announcements, Query, Developer, Tools, SharePoint, FAST, search, enterprise search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 2: Bing Geo-coding Structured/Unstructured Text for Search
09 November 09 09:56 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Web-based mapping services from Microsoft and others have been around for a number of years, but all are naturally dependent on data that contains well defined geo-coordinate information – usually latitude and longitude pairs. But what if you have content...

Filed under: enterprise search, bing, geosearch, bing maps, entity extraction

FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010
27 October 09 09:22 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled the number from the previous SharePoint conference 1 ½ years ago. This is not too surprising given the incredible momentum of SharePoint and the fact that...

Filed under: Announcements, Updates, SharePoint, FAST, Ranking, Relevance, People Search, search, FASTForward'09, enterprise search, Perf & Scale, Scale

Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator
22 September 09 03:53 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

(In May of this year, Microsoft launched its Bing search service for the Web. While Bing has shown steady growth in the Web search market, it’s not well known that Bing also includes a collection of services that can be accessed programmatically to enhance...

Filed under: enterprise search, bing, cross-lingual retrieval, translation, cross-language retrieval

Searching for Virtue - Virtuous Cycles as a Model for Successful Search Implementations
14 September 09 02:30 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

I like design patterns. I like the idea that there are right ways to do things and wrong ways (anti-patterns). Of course I understand that the world is not so black and white, but collecting and cataloging the collected wisdom of what works and what doesn...

Filed under: enterprise search, actionable search, virtuous cycles, bing

Coping with Hype in Enterprise Search Marketing
27 August 09 08:26 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Not long ago, I was invited to participate at a customer’s annual conference. It was an amazing experience. I’ve been to conferences of all sorts, but I confess I’ve never attended an event quite like this one. Let’s just say that I’m used to.. well…...

Filed under: enterprise search

A Focus on Search User Experience
14 July 09 02:17 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

It’s happening… slowly … but it’s happening. Attention in search is finally shifting from a focus on low-level features and relevancy models to looking at the whole user experience for information access. I, for one, am very glad to see this trend. Of...

Filed under: FAST, search, vision, enterprise search, user interfaces, user experience

Observations from the Text Analytics Summit 2009
09 June 09 09:56 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

One of the hard parts about organizing a conference like the 5 th annual Text Analytics Summit , held last week in Boston, must be selecting the industry case studies. Text analytics is a highly specialized, but broad reaching topic that has applications...

Filed under: search, enterprise search, sentiment analysis, etl, 'text analytics"

Actionable Search – From What to Why?
12 May 09 05:45 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Day 1 at the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC is wrapping up and I’ve just listened to Lisa Denissen from Shearman & Sterling talk about Actionable Search. Actionable search is a key tenet of Microsoft’s enterprise search strategy, so it was good to...

Filed under: enterprise search, actionable search

Search and Natural User Interfaces - Part 2
03 May 09 12:47 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

In my first post on this subject last week, I referred to a scene in the movie “Minority Report” as a visionary example of a natural user interfaces (NUIs) and, more to the theme of this blog, a visionary example of ad hoc search within a NUI. I realize...

Filed under: natural user interfaces, NUIs, FASTForward'09, Infusion Development, Microsoft Surface, EMC Consulting, enterprise search