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Live Search :: monetize your search app with ads - Silk Road

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:38 AM by alogan
I work a bit with cousins over in Live Search (Ani & Alessandro) and today @ PubCon they announced a beta of the search APIs v2.0 “Silk Road”. Check it out at search.live.com/developers Or to see an implementation go to www.geekswithblogs.net   Read More...
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Ego surfing w/ Cuil – I’m not this guy

Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:59 AM by alogan
I took Jeremiah’s advice and ran an a search for me on Cuil (the latest and apparently hottest search engine ) What’s wrong with this picture? :) Read More...
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Book search winding down – we’ll reverse this out of Tafiti

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:08 PM by alogan
There has been a lot of coverage on the announcement that book search functionality being retired from Live Search : Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be Read More...
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Tafiti and SharePoint back together again

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:44 PM by alogan
During the latest release of the Tafiti Quick App we accidentally nuked some of the code which made Tafiti work with SharePoint. George Durzi ( Clarity Consulting ) has hooked this back up (I can tell because I get an RSS feed from the latest Check Ins Read More...
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Tell me the time in <random city you have no idea where>

Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:59 AM by alogan
I always find myself trying to figure out what time zone a city is in; And its smart too – it can tell the difference between Brisbane & Sydney in Australia (both GMT+1000) but one has DST and the other doesn’t. It also tells me more cities than Vista's Read More...
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Done - SharePoint & Tafiti Together

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 10:18 AM by alogan
Kudos to Kevin Marshall of Clarity Consulting for being the first to blog SharePoint & Tafiti . Now all he needs to do is check the code into codeplex against this work item . From: Kevin Marshall Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:34 AM To: Angus Read More...
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Who will do it first? Tafiti Search Visualization on top of MOSS 2007 Search?

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:13 PM by alogan
There is a thread happening internally on a DL ( discussion list ) re. hooking up Tafiti Search Visualization to MOSS 2007 Search engine to provide a slick UX on top of Enterprise Search. The current thinking (unvalidated) is you could do the following: Read More...
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New Live Search content up on ViaWindowsLive community website.

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:20 PM by alogan
ViaWindowsLive (community site, not affiliated with Microsoft) has added a new article which helps you with Adding Live Search Functionality To Your Website This article explains the different ways you can use to integrate Windows Live Search functionality Read More...
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Would you like Multilingual with that?

Posted Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:37 PM by alogan
I didn't even know we had this functionality, it is very cool. John from Aptovita just emailed me what he implemented for the community site ViaWindowsLive.com At the bottom of each page there is a little flag for language selection they then link out Read More...
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Excellent Soapbox commercial for Live.ca

Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 5:08 AM by alogan
The live.ca team have created a killer ad up on Soabox watch it here Video: Live Search commercial Read More...
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MOSS 2007 Search using the Business Data Catalog (BDC) against the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse

Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 11:21 PM by alogan
I will blog more about this awesome MOSS 2007 website ( www.westernaustralia.com and its cousin www.tourism.wa.gov.au ) but I just wanted to quickly highlight the coolest feature. They are using the BDC against the ATDW (tourism data warehouse) and surfacing Read More...
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Want to index FileNet with MOSS 2007? - use Vorsite

Posted Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:29 PM by alogan
check out the Press release : VORSITE paves the way to create a smooth integration between the latest cutting-edge search technology from Microsoft and the FileNet P8 Content Management Platform Seattle, WA - April 2, 2007 - VORSITE Corporation, the recognized Read More...
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Indexing Lotus Notes/Domino with MOSS 2007

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:43 PM by alogan
I just configure my MOSS Search SKU environment to index a little test Lotus Notes/Domino environment. Interesting process and all works well. One of the issues I hit was funky names (IDs) coming back as titles in the search results. Mei Ying Lim has Read More...
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Everything you need to know about Windows Desktop Search (WDS)

Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:00 PM by alogan
WDS Admin Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows/search/dtsguide.mspx iFilters http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchIFilters Syntax http://toolbar.search.msn.com/docs/toolbarts.aspx?t=MSNTbar_PROC_CompleteSearchSyntax.htm Read More...
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Search Capacity Planning out on TechNet

Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:31 AM by alogan
You can view the new guidance :" Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments ". Key characteristics describe environmental factors, usage characteristics, and other considerations that are likely to be found in deployments based Read More...
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