Chapter 14: Configuring and Managing Enterprise Search
What’s In This Chapter?
- SharePoint Foundation Search
- SharePoint Server and Search Server
- FAST Search
- All the bells and whistles of Search
Who doesn’t need Search these days? In the early days of the Internet search engines were either unknown or considered weird things that the geeks (like the authors of this book) would use to find those cool nuggets of information on the Internet. You know the ones, like how to build your own BBS using 286s or what was the code for invincibility in Doom. Fast forward to today and now everyone and their dog uses search to explore the Internet. And it works great for finding anything and everything you can imagine. It even works just as well to find those Doom codes. Unfortunately, Internet search engines cannot reach inside your corporate network. And even if you buy one of those “Internet search devices” and put it inside your network they generally don’t do a very good job of indexing (cataloging) your corporate data. That’s because the online search engines are optimized for following the billions and billions of links on the Internet and determining relevancy that way. Your intranet doesn’t have the same type of linking, so the results fall short.
The challenge is your users want to search, they even expect it. They don’t want to dig through a file share to find their spreadsheet. Think about it; what is one of the most popular features in Outlook 2007 and 2010? The instant search capabilities ...
