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General News

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Enterprise Search Trends for 2008 Blog post covering article from CMS Watch (Nov 07)
Microsoft Faceted Search Article describing some of the improvements Microsoft has been building into its Search portfolio, including search results clustering. (Sept 06)
User behaviour research Article describing user behaviour analysis techniques MS Research is using to improve search results (August 06)
Search objective gets a refined approach Microsoft Research paper describing a new ranking algorithm - object-level vertical search.  Vertical = a specific domain (e.g. academic, product), object = a specific item embedded in a web page (e.g. person, paper, event).  Theory being that people are usually more interested in objects rather than the whole web page (June 06)
Microsoft Search Strategy part 2 Blog post covering Microsoft's UK search conference - future technologies (June 06)
Microsoft Search Strategy part 1 Blog posts covering Microsoft's UK Search conference - current technologies (June 06)
   

Network Search

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Planning a tag-driven IA in MOSS 2007 Improving findability through navigation using a tag-driven IA. Based on real-world example - NZ Ministry of Transport (Apr 08)
Search Server 2008: Federated sites that do not return XML Blog post by Andrew Woodward - how to build your own federated search connector for Google (Jan 08)
Microsoft Federated Search Example Image example from ISV showing search across Live.com and Flickr (Nov 07)
Microsoft Enterprise Search Announcement Blog post covering Microsoft's enterprise search announcements - new products and new features (Nov 07)
MS Blog - Jie Li Chinese TS with a blog specialising in Enterprise Search. E.g. tweaking word breakers using the Registry
Search Lessons From research for the Enterprise Search discovery workshops - have you ever considered search engine optimisation for your internal information assets? (Oct 07)
Administering Enterprise Search TechNet white paper covering configuration and administration of search features in MOSS 2007 (Sept 07)
SharePoint RSS Viewer web part Blog post describing how to configure the RSS Viewer web part (Aug 07)
MOSS 2007 search customisation - locations Blog post describing how to include a property to select the location of a document (e.g. doc library) rather than the document itself in search results (May 07)
SharePoint and Adobe PDF Configuring SharePoint to index Adobe PDF documents, including associating the Adobe icon in search results (May 07)
How Microsoft IT manages enterprise search Technet web cast - 60 minutes (Apr 07)
Find it all with SharePoint Enterprise Search Technet article - overview of enterprise search, indexing and querying business data, LoB data and people knowledge (Jan 07)
Planning and architecture for SharePoint for Search White paper (1Mb) containing Search related content from TechNet (Dec 06)
Customise search in MOSS 2007 Customising SharePoint search - blog post (Dec 06)
Enterprise search in legal sector Blog post describing how a law firm is using SharePoint Search, returning over 1million results in less then 1 second (Dec 06)
SharePoint and RSS vs Alerts Blog post explaining the differences between RSS news feeds and Alerts within SharePoint Server 2007 (Sept 06)
How to add properties to search in MOSS 2007 Adding custom properties to advanced search (July 06)

Internet Search

Services: Live.com  - Tafiti

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Tafiti New search front-end in development at Microsoft, designed for research-oriented search queries
   

 

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