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New Tools for Anyone Who Uses SharePoint

I've added yet another new section in the right-hand column of this blog titled "My Toolbox," and added two initial links to it.  I've found myself using both of them on a pretty regular basis recently, and highly recommend that you take a look at them.

The first item is a link to a website that I just setup to display a Google custom search engine that I've been working on for the last year or so, http://searchforsharepoint.com.  Google's custom search engine offering is a great way for you to create a custom search engine (leveraging all the stuff Google has done that makes their normal search engine so great) built on a specific set of web sites that you provide.  So over time I've been working to add pretty much any site I come across that has any sort of postings, articles, or information regarding SharePoint in all its incarnations to my own custom search engine.  Somehow I've managed to come across over 750 sites out there and add them all into my engine (I suppose some might term that obsession... ).  And I've finally been able to get the site up on its own URL, which makes me feel like its ready for public consumption.  Let me know what you think!

NOTE: The site doesn't work in FireFox; I need to take a look at my JavaScript and figure out what's breaking.  Sorry!

The other link I've added to My Toolbox is http://sharepointpedia.com.  This is a great new social news site (similar to digg.com, reddit.com, and dotnetkicks.com) centered completely around content for SharePoint, provided by Microsoft.  It just debuted last week, but content is flying in.  I highly encourage you to take a look around and see what you think, it;s a pretty good place to check for help and hopefully the community will continue to support and nurture it.

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