Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Conclusion
A portal really isn't a portal without search capabilities that can handle unstructured as well as structured information. That means we need full-text search capability. Because the portal contains many kinds of data in multiple repositories, we need search tools that can integrate these sources and provide results from all of them from a single query.
Microsoft has developed advanced and easy-to-use search capabilities that have been implemented in various ways throughout its software products. Ranging from file searching in Windows XP to catalog searching in Commerce Server and document searches in SharePoint Portal Server, you have several options for search engines.
For the enterprise portal, SharePoint Portal Server is the hands-down ...
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