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So how Does MOSS Expand Search Query Terms to Related Words? Here is how this works in MOSS: In MOSS, stemming is used in combination with the word breaker component which determines where word boundaries are. The word breaker is used at both...

Hi all, So I have been getting some questions around how MOSS does Word Stemming, so here is what I have been able to gather/research: MOSS Search Stemming: The word Stemming refers to the process of stripping off endings of words at...

I have heard this question few times and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. The two questions are: Is there anything special that MOSS does to crawl pages with iFrames in them? Or do we have to do anything special to get MOSS to crawl these pages? ...

I have been getting this question few times now with some of my MOSS Search customers. I have been asked what is the difference in setting up a "SharePoint Sites" MOSS Content Source versus a "Web Sites" MOSS Content Source . Here I have tried to...

I have been asked this question few times by my MOSS Search customers. Question being: What is the difference in features in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search? One thing to note is that the Search in the 3 products are...

I just wanted to let the readers know of a tool that allows taking MOSS Search settings from one SSP to another. This tool written by Angus Logan, can take the output of Search settings from one MOSS SSP and import them into another SSP. This eliminates...

There is a great feature in MOSS Search that some folks may not know about. This is regarding finding out the status of an item in MOSS Search. For example, if you want to know if a site, a document or a link was crawled or not by MOSS Search, we have...

I have been compiling links to current documents/links/articles on Mcirosoft related sites regarding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search. I am sure there are more links out there, but this is a good list to start with: MOSS 2007 Search...

I just wanted to make sure that folks are aware of some blog postings and links/whitepapers that Microsoft has today regarding Enterprise Search: Start with this article by Arpan Shah on Enterprise Search: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005...

Pronouncing my last name So I always get asked how to pronounce my last name. Even though it may look long and difficult to pronounce, after I teach you how to pronounce it, you should have no problems after today. My last name is Taghizadeh . Basically...

Hello World, Today I created this blog to start blogging on SharePoint and other related technologies. So make sure that you come back and I promise to have great articles here. Thanks all, MikeTag