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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
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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
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Continuing the discussion on document processing , this post focusses on the document processing engine in FAST ESP. The Document Processing Engine provides processing of documents through customizable document processing pipelines . The Engine consists
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Besides the architectural differences and feature set, transitioning from SharePoint to FAST ESP involves knowing the differences in terminology also. The term – “ Document ” is just one of the many examples available. This post is about what a document
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Microsoft's Enterprise Search website contains information on search products, including FAST ESP . You can also read about the Enteprise search solutions - Enterprise Search for Internet Business and Enterprise Search for Business Productivity here.
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Content retrieval is done very differently in FAST then in SharePoint 2007. FAST ESP may retrieve content from the data sources using two broad approaches: 1) Content Pull : this approach leverages content connectors to retrieve the information via standard
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Relevancy is the measure of how well a set of documents (results) answers or addresses the intent of a given query. When there are many query matches, the search engines must rank the results by relevance score, sorting the results listing so that the
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FAST ESP performs linguistic processing: at the document level – during document processing, and at the query level – during query and result processing This helps it provide more relevant search results to users. On the query side, linguistic processing
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FAST ESP is a feature rich search platform; no doubt about that. To give my readers, especially SharePoint 2007 developers/architects, an idea of what it provides, given below are some of FAST ESP features in an alphabetical order: Capability Description
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FAST ESP is built on a distributed system architecture that enables any type of information to be accessed through core search and filter engines. Incoming content is fed through a number of processors that automatically extract information, generate
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This is the first post from a planned series on the FAST ESP platform to increase product awareness in the SharePoint community. This post builds on the basic FAST information I shared in my blog post – “ FAST and SharePoint 2007 ” last month. Target
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For some time, I have been working on pre-sales engagements for FAST search based solutions. I get lot of queries from SharePoint developers/architects - what is "FAST" and how it works with SharePoint etc. I am sharing some information below. The links
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