The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search training course provides a series of hands-on labs, presentations, and videos that demonstrate how to enable high-end enterprise search with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Following Lab contents...

The Enterprise Search Evaluation Guides for SharePoint 2010 product family are now available from the Microsoft Download Center now. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide - describes the enterprise search features of SharePoint Server 2010 and familiarizes readers with...

In SharePoint 2007, custom Search scopes can be enabled in a Site Collection through Site Settings > Search Settings page. You can use Site Settings > Scopes page to view and manage search scopes. After configuring, you will notice that the search scopes dropdown list has few more search scopes...

A new TechNet article - Best practices for search in SharePoint Server 2010 describes best practices for configuring and maintaining search in SharePoint Server 2010. Personally, practice #4 was new to me 4. Defragment the search database - The search database contains metadata and ACLs of crawled...

As I mentioned in my earlier post - Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products , FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is the new search SKU in SharePoint 2010 product family. (download this technical diagram to see a comparison of search capabilities across 5 search options to choose from) ...

On 22nd Jan, Autonomy announced agreement to acquire Interwoven for US$775 million approx. (ref: Press release ). Leslie Owens mentions in Forrester Research blog (ref: Autonomy Acquires Interwoven — What It Means For Search ) - "... Since 2005, Autonomy has acquired technology for search (Verity...

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? As Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide aptly puts it - “Search engine optimization is about putting your site's best foot forward when it comes to visibility in search engines”. How to Optimize? There is lot of material available on the...

Expanding on the brief information in Information on FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint , this post is on what the components of FAST search system are and what function they perform. This should help you understand the FAST search system better. Please note that most information in this post...

Most content sources can be crawled using the integrated indexing connectors in SharePoint Server 2010. These indexing connectors are set up by configuring the FAST Search connector Content Search Service Application (Content SSA). In addition to these, FAST Search for SharePoint includes three FAST...

The new 2011 Enterprise Search MarketScope by Gartner was recently published (link: MarketScope for Enterprise Search ). Microsoft is again ranked a ‘ Strong Positive ,’ the highest ranking given on the report. Gartner indicates that “Microsoft has surged to a leadership position...

Since posting my last blog post - SharePoint 2010 documentation now available , I came across some more content available on Microsoft Download Center. Given below are the new resources I found: SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper - An Introduction for ASP.NET Solution Architects by David...

When compared to SharePoint 2007, one more search technology option - FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint has been added to SharePoint 2010 product family. Options now available are: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 search Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express Microsoft Search Server...

To full-text index the PDF files in SharePoint 2007, most customers use the free PDF iFilter from Adobe. It's sort of the "default" option. There is a choice available though and it's always good to know the options :-) Choices (in alphabetical order) available are: Adobe : Adobe PDF iFilter...

Microsoft's Live Search team has released a search add-on for Firefox browser. You can use this add-on to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. Beatrice Oltean and Debapriya Ray have blogged about it on the Live Search blog : Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox...