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Friday, April 25, 2008 5:14 PM
Microsoft feels the need, feels the need for Speed!
I happy to report that Microsoft just completed the tender offer for the FAST acquisition! Here is a great quote from the announcement: “With our companies combined, we’ll be uniquely able to offer customers what they’ve been telling
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Monday, April 21, 2008 1:52 PM
Excellent Search Resources for the IT Pro and Developer alike!
There is an excellent resource for all you Microsoft Search Jedi's out there the: Search Community Toolkit The Search Community Toolkit is comprised of a number of tools and code samples that have been contributed to enhance the Microsoft search experience
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Monday, April 21, 2008 1:27 PM
Fast Search & Transfer Captures a 20 Percent Share of Japan's Growing
Here is an interesting article about FAST and how they are growing their market. Fast Search & Transfer Captures a 20 Percent Share of Japan's Growing Enterprise Search Software Market in 2007
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Monday, April 07, 2008 10:38 PM
Got Search? Windows Search 4.0 and the Multilingual User Interface Pack for WS 4.0 Previews Available Today!
The next generation of desktop searching is here and it has a brand new name: Windows Search 4.0 This is the next version of our desktop engine and really helps improve the instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview
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Friday, March 21, 2008 2:56 PM
Download Search Server 2008 Trial (x86)
If you have not tried Search Server or Search Server express you want too! These are great tools, well we are offering a 180 day trial of Search Server. Microsoft® Search Server 2008 offers an enterprise-ready search solution and it is
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:55 AM
Simply Amazing, Randy Pausch reprising his "Last Lecture"
If you have never scene this talk, I highly recommend it, it is about 10 minutes long and worth every second. I guarantee it will touch you. It is an shorter version of a full lecture that he gave, and you can click on his name to learn more
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Friday, February 15, 2008 7:45 AM
Screencast: How To Install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008
The other day I was building some new demo servers to showcase search capabilities with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS). During the process I decided to install MOSS on my brand new RTM copy of Windows 2008 Enterprise server.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:11 PM
You be the Judge: What is the best search engine: Live Search, Google or Yahoo?
You get to be the judge, click on the picture below and got the search-off web site , click the picture below, run a search and click the check in the upper right to vote. Happy Searching!
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Monday, February 11, 2008 5:06 PM
MOSS Faceted Search code v2 released
One of the great things about working with search is seeing all of the great facets of the product. One of the more intriguing aspects I have seen is the faceted searching inside of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). So what is faceted
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:05 AM
Microsoft, Google's and other opinions on the Yahoo! acquisition
Yesterday I was reading a couple of interesting posts and the general news surrounding the proposed acquisition we made to buy Yahoo: Microsoft Bid To Buy Yahoo Faces Scrutiny During my reading I stumbled upon a couple of interesting posts one
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:39 PM
Does your company have an Enterprise Search Strategy?
Good evening all of my search jedi's :-) I heard a great analyst, Matthew Brown , from Forrester talk about how important it is a to have a strategy and he did a very good job defining the steps to developing the strategy. There is a great
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:15 PM
Microsoft Acquires FAST
Hello all of my search junkies, I have a great announcement to share, Microsoft is looking to acquire FAST. This is an important step that not only shows how Microsoft is investing but also how important Enterprise Search is you and your business.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:03 PM
SharePoint meet Tafiti, Tafiti meet SharePoint
Good afternoon everyone, as you all know I am a huge fan of Tafiti and our search Technologies. I always thought what would be cool is if the two technologies where combined. Well I got wind of some great work that Kevin Marshall doing some
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:51 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: Tafiti goes Shared Source
Happy Searching Everyone! Wanted to give you an update on Tafiti, Microsoft’s experimental site that explores the intersection between Silverlight and Windows Live Search. Today, we are announcing the release of the Tafiti Search Visualization source
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:05 AM
An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology: Webcast (12-17-2007)
Good afternoon all my search aficionados!!!! Thank you for attending the search webcast and I hope you found it interesting. We had some great questions from the webcast and I have the answers below. Before I get to those I wanted to share some resources
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