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Bing Add-on for Firefox
30 July 09 12:54 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

If your are using Firefox, the Microsoft Search Team have developed an add-in to allow you to make your default search engine Bing. You can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10434 The add-on has already over 488’000 downloads! Read More...

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Microsoft Bing - The Decision Engine
29 May 09 02:24 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Introducing Bing Search by Microsoft. A Decision Engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0rUzRAXGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5IYlZECmE http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/ProductLaunchPR_280509.mspx So from 3 June 2009 , don’t Read More...

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iFilters for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows Desktop Search
02 April 09 08:40 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Quite often, customers and partners ask about iFilters. For those who don’t know what an iFilter is, well, when a Indexing Service needs to index the contents of a file, it needs to know what the format of the file is. A PDF file has a different format Read More...

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Adobe PDF iFilter for 64bit
29 January 09 01:38 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Eventually! Adobe has released a 64bit version of it’s PDF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Up till now, your only options were Adobe’s 32 bit version, or buy the 32- or Read More...

Filed under: SQL Server, Enterprise Search, Search, SharePoint

Problems with the display of Search results (Search Server 2008 / MOSS)
19 January 09 02:33 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Some partners have reported problems with the Search results display. The 1st search request on a Search Portal on Search Server 2008 appears very quickly. The system shows the elapsed time as 0.05 seconds. So far, so good. If a user performs another Read More...

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