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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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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
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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
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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?
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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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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
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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)
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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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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
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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
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