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Elements of a Successful SharePoint Search Source: Law.com

The ability of law firms to differentiate themselves by controlling access to legal information has been significantly diminished by the Internet. At the same time, the pressure to use that information in conjunction with legal expertise to deliver increased value to clients has intensified.

Some of the topics covered in this article: Why Search is different from internet search engines; How it is possible that others will NOT be able to find your secured documents; Can it search your inbox; Protocol handlers, iFilters and the BDC; Faceted search; Conceptual and keyword search.

Actionable Search Results

The question "now what?" will inevitably cross the mind of every client, just after their LOB system is integrated into SharePoint Search and their first results are produced. Search results are nothing more than a set of property values that were crawled earlier, and now the client wants to be able to interact with those results in a meaningful way.

Enterprise Search - SharePoint Search vs Google

What to consider when making the decision between Google or SharePoint Search.

SharePoint Search Security Explained

Explanation of how SharePoint Search security works. Includes BDC discussion and security trimming. Business Data Catalog (BDC) – the BDC is a generic set of components provided with the SharePoint Portal that makes the integration of external LOB (line of business systems like a CRM solution) into SharePoint easier. More...

MOSS Search Stemming Part 1 Source: Mike Taghizadeh's Blog

The process of stripping off endings of words at query/index time so that different search terms will match and retrieve documents containing related words in the index. I.e. the reduction of the related words “diet”, “diets”, “dieting”, “dieted”, “dietary”, “dietician”, “dieticians”, etc to a single stem “diet.”

MOSS Search - Customer Proof of Concept Scoping and Typical Tasks Source: Mike Taghizadeh's Blog

Discussion points for the pre-POC call: What is their current SharePoint or CMS infrastructure / deployment today? Do they want to search any of these systems? What is their Authentication/Authorization requirements for this POC? Do they have any database content that they want to search in MOSS? More...

10 Reasons To User a Taxomomy Source: Penny Crosman

1. Narrow enterprise search.
2. Improve site navigation.
3. Eliminate redundancy.
4. Maximize the value of intellectual assets.
5. Support customer-facing employees.
6. Make corporate resources more accessible.
7. Ease mergers and acquisition.
8. Support globalization and localization.
9. Streamline business processes.
10.Speed legal discoveries.

Search: Fine Tuning Search Relevancy in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007: Getting the Search Results Your User Expects Source: Brian Wilson

Relevance is about how closely the search results match what the user wanted to find. To improve the search results that MOSS Search returns, we need to understand how search results are ranked.

SharePoint 2007 Improves Enterprise Search Source: Matt Rosoff

SharePoint Server 2007 offers improved enterprise search capabilities, which enable search of resources on a network, such as intranet sites, file servers, and business applications. These capabilities and a new low-cost edition for search will help SharePoint Server compete with more expensive solutions from enterprise search specialists.