Familiar search experience
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Search Center. Empower your people to quickly find the information they need through a familiar, web-style search interface and easy-to-use query syntax. Re-configure the layout of Search Center elements without writing any code.
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Out-of-the-box Relevancy. Get relevant search results immediately, without extensive configuration using a ranking engine developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research and Windows Live search.
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Localized Interface. Use a search experience available in 25 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
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Extensible Search Experience. Use powerful development tools (including Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer) to build customized query / results experiences and search-enabled applications on the SharePoint platform – from altering the appearance of your search site using XLST to enabling contextual actions you can take on search results.
Powerful enough to meet your needs now and as they grow
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No Pre-set Document Limits. Scale your search infrastructure to meet your evolving needs – however big or small they are – using the same search platform across a breadth of server hardware and SQL Server database configurations.
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Continuous Propagation Indexing. Improve the freshness of your search results with an index that incrementally updates itself as it crawls your information. Newly crawled content is propagated to the query servers so people can search it sooner, without having to wait for all content to be crawled.
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Out-of-the-box Indexing Connectors. Index content on file servers, web sites, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Exchange Server public folders, and Lotus Notes repositories. Find additional Indexing Connectors in the Search Connector Gallery. More Information
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Federated Search Connectors. Federate your searches to indexes in other data repositories, applications, and services using the Open Search standard. Quickly import or export your federated locations using packaged Federated Location Definition (.FLD) files. Find Federated Search Connectors in the Search Connector Gallery. More Information
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Search iFilters. Index a wide variety of documents and file types using an interface common across Windows Desktop Search, Windows Vista, SharePoint, and SQL Server.
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Search Connector Gallery. Reference Microsoft’s online gallery of 3rd-party federated search connectors, indexing connectors, and iFilters.
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Relevance Tuning. Retrieve the most relevant results across a diverse set of 3rd-party line-of-business systems and content repositories from a single search query. Use a ranking engine developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research and Windows Live Search. More Information
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Common Desktop Search Infrastructure. Use a search infrastructure that effectively scales from the desktop, allowing components like iFilters and Indexing Connectors used for desktop search to also be used on the server. Learn more about Windows Desktop Search.
Easy to configure, easy to maintain
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Streamlined Installation. Simplified experience makes it easy to get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment quickly.
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Unified Administration Dashboard. Review common administrative tasks, monitor system and crawl status, and configure your search settings in a single, configurable view. More Information
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Query and Results Reporting. Review your most common searches, queries with no results, top destination pages, query volume, click-through rates, and most-clicked best bets. Recognize not only the most popular searches, but also the least successful – and improve them by adding new Best Bets and content sources.
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Enterprise-ready Backup and Restore. Schedule or perform ad-hoc backups / restores of your configuration data and search index, on premise or remotely.
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Security-Trimmed Results. Ensure people only find information they should have access to by automatically trimming search results based on the identity of the user at query time. Access control lists (ACLs) for content on file shares, SharePoint sites, and Lotus Notes databases are automatically captured at index time.
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Secure Federated Relationships. Set global or user-level security settings for your federated search relationships – supporting basic, NTLM, Kerberos, forms-based, and cookie-based authentication mechanisms.
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Crawl Rules. Specify unique crawl inclusion / exclusion behaviors and authentication credentials for specific content sources
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Single-item Index Removal. Quickly remove sensitive content from the search index without having to re-index a content source. Crawl exclusion rules are automatically created to ensure this content isn’t re-indexed.
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Breadth of Enterprise Search Solutions. Minimize your investment risk by betting on a common search infrastructure that offers solutions that will grow with you – from a quick, easy, and no-cost search server to a sophisticated business productivity Infrastructure. Compare Microsoft’s enterprise search offerings.
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Technical Resources. Make use of Microsoft’s library of enterprise search technical resources and articles on TechNet and MSDN.
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Community Discussion Groups. Connect with your peers who are implementing Microsoft enterprise search solutions. Participate in community discussion groups here.
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