Federated Search comes to SharePoint with SS 2008
Microsoft Just announced the next release of SharePoint Search at the Enterprise Search Summit, which I am at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx
There are many partners already onboard creating Open Search definition files that will allow integration with the newest release of SharePoint Search.
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/connectors/federated.aspx#fscp
What this means is that existing Search providers, those with their own query engines and indexes can now integrated a lot easier without having to develop their own custom search interface in SharePoint.
Here is a great overview. Somewhat technical http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931080.aspx
We will have more updates on SHAREPOINTSearch.com soon.
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