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Microsoft Products for Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search solutions from Microsoft are a collection of related software products and technologies that allow you to find the relevant information you need from resources on the Internet, your company’s intranet, within enterprise applications and file stores, and from the people within your organization. The solutions can be deployed individually or together to fit your needs and the needs of your organization.

Office SharePoint Server 2007

Just as I was browsing through Mark Harrison post via Angus Logan on MOSS 2007 – Search Evaluation Guide, I read news about feature enhancements to Google Search Appliance, on another site.  Read more... (288 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

No more Start, Run, Calc. Just Head over to Google Calculator!

100 miles in kilometers

100 miles = 160.9344 kilometers

Google’s calculator tries to understand the problem you are attempting to solve without requiring you to use special syntax.

You can force the calculator to try and evaluate an expression by putting an equals sign (=) after it. This only works if the expression is mathematically resolvable. For example, 1-800-555-1234= will return a result, but 1/0= will not.
Parentheses can be used to enclose the parts of your expression that you want evaluated first. For example, (1+2)*3 causes the addition to happen before the multiplication.  Read more... (156 words, 1 image, estimated 37 secs reading time)

RSS Exclusive

Is a response to Google’s Jotspot? At present you cannot use Codename “Tahiti” if

• You are outside US (not again!)
• You don’t have invite and password. ( I don’t have any)

What is Microsoft Codename Tahiti? Is it an improved NetMeeting application or stripped down version of Groove? Is it really an answer to Google’s Jotspot?

From what I have read so far, its a real-time sharing application. No saving in central place like Grovve or SharePoint or for that matter JotSpot. I have no clue how Jotspot works, but from what I have read, it does look like Google OS.  Read more... (149 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

New on MSDN – 6 presentations on Enterprise Search. Dive into it!

Overview

This download presents packaged presentations and videos of the following conference sessions:  Read more... (266 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

• Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveA.exe)
  This session starts with an overview of Microsoft’s enterprise search strategy, reviews the various products that it affects, and outlines what is new in SharePoint Search for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Lastly, it discusses opportunities for partners building on the platform.
• SharePoint Search Extensibility (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveB.exe)
  This session addresses the core extensibility scenarios in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search, such as customizing the user interface, custom search using client applications, and crawling new repositories, including line-of-business data. It also covers the administration object model.