Microsoft 2007 manual Improved crawl rules and crawl log

Feature Area	Features
Indexing	Improved Indexing Management controls provide better control over what
Management	is to be indexed, how it is to be indexed, and when. These features include:
Enhanced
	• Improved crawl rules and crawl log.
	• One index per shared indexing service, removing the need to worry
	about managing discrete indexes.
	• Multiple start addresses per content source.
	• An entirely new browsable, filterable index log.
	• Explicit SharePoint content source type.
	• Decoupling of content sources from scopes.
	• From a performance perspective, Microsoft Search indexes Windows
	SharePoint Services sites more efficiently using the change log feature
	in Windows SharePoint Services platform services.
Content Scopes	Content Scopes help users broaden or narrow the scope of their content
New	search. Office SharePoint Server 2007 search scopes are now decoupled
	from content sources and can be based on arbitrary content properties
	such as URL, type, and author. Search scopes can be based in simple or
	multiple rules such as “All Marketing Plans on the North American Sales
	Web Site.”
	In addition, search scopes can be defined globally over the entire
	SharePoint environment, or on an individual SharePoint site basis.
Extensibility and	Microsoft Search includes three categories of application programming
Programmability	interfaces (APIs):
Enhanced
	• Data access: protocol handlers and IFilters
	• Query object model, APIs, Web services, and reusable Search Center
	Web Parts
	• Administration object model and APIs
	These APIs provide coherent, comprehensive, and backward-compatible
	programmable access to the Microsoft Search features.
Common Search	Microsoft Search provides a single indexing and search infrastructure that
Technology and	effectively scales from the desktop, through team sites and divisional
Infrastructure:
Desktop to Server	portal sites, to the largest corporate intranets, extranets, and Internet
Enhanced	presence Web sites.

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