Search
The search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been significantly enhanced by this release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The new features provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in LOB applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.
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Consistent Search | While Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint | ||
Experience | Portal Server 2003 used common Microsoft Search technology, users | ||
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| another. In addition, administrators needed to use different tools to | ||
| configure and manage each environment. | ||
| Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services now use | ||
| a common implementation of Microsoft Search. Both users and admini- | ||
| strators use a common set of tools to configure and use Microsoft Search. | ||
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Relevance | Microsoft Search includes a revamped ranking engine developed in | ||
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Enhanced | collaboration with Microsoft Research and MSN Internet Search. It is | ||
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| specifically tuned for the unique requirements of searching enterprise | ||
| content and LOB application data. These requirements include: | ||
| • Searching document content and LOB application data in addition to | ||
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| Web content. | |
| • Producing | ||
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| information available in document content and LOB application data. | |
| • High security and content access controls. | ||
| Specific new content relevance algorithms include: | ||
| • | Click distance | |
| • | Hyperlink anchor text | |
| • | URL surf depth | |
| • | URL text matching | |
| • | Automated metadata extraction | |
| • | Automatic language detection | |
| • File type relevancy biasing | ||
| • | Enhanced text analysis | |
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www.microsoft.com/office/preview/servers/sharepointserver21
