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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

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

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"

Search and Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) - Part 1
27 April 09 12:08 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

About five years ago or so, I participated in a conference panel where the question was asked: “What will search interfaces look like 20 years from now?”. I had just seen Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise, so I referred...

Filed under: search, natural user interfaces, NUIs, vision