Search Options in SharePoint 2010

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Search for SharePoint 2010

ByMilan ChauhanSharepointzone.blogspot.in@chauhanmilan

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Search Products1. SharePoint Foundation Search

2. Search Server Express

3. Search Server 2010

4. SharePoint Server 2010 Search

5. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

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SharePoint Foundation Search• Shipped with SharePoint Foundation• Search works on single site collection at a time• Content such as sites and lists• Indexed items up to 10 million per search server

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• Cannot index external data sources• Intended to be used in small implementation.

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Search Server Express• This product is Free

• It can index external sources

• Supports search federation

• This product targets organization where they need enterprise search solutions but limited scalability.

• Index upto 3 lac items in SQL Express and 10 million items in SQL Server

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Search Server 2010• This enterprise search engine scale across multiple servers to distribute

workload.

• Index up to 100 million items

• This is advanced version on Search Server Express

• This product is for organization intended to have enterprise search solution

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SharePoint Server 2010 Search

• Build in Search capability for SharePoint Server 2010

• All capabilities of Search Server 2010

• Additional capabilities include people search, taxonomy and social networking

• Index up to 100 million records

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Search Architecture

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FAST Search For SP• An enterprise wide Search Solution

• Offers great capacity, flexibility and intelligence

• SharePoint and FAST build on same interface. So platform can be easily migrated.

• Indexed more than 500 million records

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FAST Content Processing• Character Normalization e.g. øystein = Oystein and vice versa

• Related words. Applies to noun and adjectives

• Custom Refiners e.g. Entity extraction such as company

• Custom rank models and relevance Anchor authority, Query authority, Freshness, Quality Query language to boost relevance of keywords

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Flow Chart

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FAST ResultsSingle query returns different results based on user profile

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