The hidden search object is an internal singleton instance that is used by all the result web parts on the search result page. The web parts pass properties and settings to the hidden object and use it to handle all query specific logic. Since the...

The search result page is a core piece of the search user interface since it owns: Building the query Issuing the query against the SharePoint index Receive results and organizing the results Rendering results and interaction...

The advanced search box is available for more specialized queries filtering different scopes, properties and free text clauses. Find documents with The standard advanced search web part uses FREETEXT SQL clause for "find document with..." keyword...

The search box is used for simple keyword searches. The box supports the new enhanced query syntax, which supports: Properties search, like name: john Phrases, like "john smith" Simple term, like john Include/exclude terms, like +john -smith...

Mark has a great post on Search scopes and the special contextual scopes. Good stuff Mark! If you want to remove the "This site" contextual scope all together, then this cannot be done using standard user interface. You need to create a new feature...

Faceted search, or guided navigation, is a very popular topic these days. A new and improved v2 of Lenoid's great solution on codeplex.com was released a few weeks ago. I had the pleasure of using it in a couple of projects and it works beautifully. I...

Last week I had to crawl a site with case-sensitive URLs. After some troubleshooting I found out that this feature is *not* enabled by default in MSS. I found this great post by Richard on the Enterprise Search blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch...