SharePoint search: more insights
Surprisingly this white paper on building multilingual solutions in SharePoints provides a good overview of how the search works, regardless of whether you are interested in the multilingual aspect....
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2009
Last week I went to the Search Solutions event, held by BCS in their lovely office in Southampton Street. There were maybe 50 people, 6 or 7 women and seemingly even less laptops (which rather made it...
View Articlewhy your search engine (probably) isn’t rubbish
Now all search engines struggle, to varying degrees, with the knotty mess that is natural language. But they don’t generally don’t get called rubbish for not succeeding with the meaty search...
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SharePoint search administration via SSP
SharePoint search features are managed at 3 levels Farm level (configure the search service, configure crawler timeout settings etc…) SSP (Shared Services Provider) level Site collection level The SSP...
View Articlee-commerce: google keywords
This article is part of a series about our e-commerce redesign. Analysing your search referrals only tells you about the traffic you were successful in attracting. Even if you are getting lots of...
View ArticleBest Bets in SharePoint
SharePoint search allows you to create Best Bets. They can be created by the Site Collection administrator. If you go to Site Settings, you should see ‘Search Keywords’ under the Site Collection...
View Articlesearch: which features actually help?
1. Ranking This is the least visible thing, that you might not consider a feature, that mostly gets ignored and is absolutely the most important thing for you to dedicate time to getting right. If the...
View Articlegiving the user choice over “Did you mean?”
Be really really wary of expanding the users queries without telling them. Don’t just give them results for aubergine and results for eggplant, when they only searched for Aubergine. You think you are...
View Articlebe careful about being too ‘helpful’ with search results
The bane of my life when trying to work out what’s gone wrong with a search engine is the hidden thesaurus. Lots of search software comes with a thesaurus that is referred to ‘behind the scenes’ to...
View ArticleChristies: where a power search might be appropriate?
There are lots of useful interface elements you can add to a search results page, but the general wisdom seems to be you shouldn’t put too many of them together. Christies, the auction house, don’t...
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