Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Managing Search Scopes
A search scope defines subsets of the portal data that can be searched by the user. The search scope usually appears as a dropdown list next to the search field on the home page and on the advanced search page. For instance, for your enterprise portal you might want to have search scopes such as “this site only,” “competitor web sites,” “news items,” and “all portal content.”
Search scopes can be limited by content sources, areas, and topics (Figure 13.18). For instance, the search scope “competitor web sites” would map to the content sources that crawl the web sites of your top 10 competitors. Similarly, “news items” might be mapped to the News area, which in turn consists of press releases, product announcements, and ...
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