Outlining the Capabilities of SharePoint 2010 Search

SharePoint has always been strong in its search capabilities, and SharePoint 2010’s search features improve the situation even more, both from an end user perspective and for administrators. The new end user capabilities of SharePoint 2010 Search include the following:

• New, rich user interface with Refinement Panel

• Boolean query syntax

• Suggestion while typing the query

• Did You Mean suggestions

• Enhanced relevance

• Federated results

• Related searches

• View in Browser for Office documents

• Improved people search

• Phonetic and nickname matching

• Search relevance by social behavior of people

• Windows 7 using a SharePoint 2010 search engine as a federated search location

For administrators, ...

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