Murad's search blog

With the display templates in SharePoint 2013 being built in html and javascript you can easily re-use exisiting javascript frameworks like jQuery. The jquery plugin called jqplot is one of many charting plugins available. It is more or less randomly...

SharePoint 2013 comes with a beautiful REST API that supports both search and suggestions. In this post I’ll show how to easily integrate search results into the search box to quickly show the users the results they want. The example shows normal search...

The new Office Web Apps 2013 integrates very nicely with SharePoint 2013, both when viewing/editing office content as well as with the search preview of the documents. One very common format that is not supported is PDF, and in this article I will build...

With the new SharePoint 2013 (preview) and Office Web Apps (OWA) there are beautiful previews of PowerPoint (and Word) documents. The requirement is that the documents are stored in SharePoint 2013 as well. There are rumors that you should get previews...

It’s been a well known fact that you cannot change the automatic spelling suggestions you get with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. Either you go with the out of the box dictionaries, or you get it automatically aligned with your crawled content...

Introduction Implementing secure database search on the item level with FastSearch for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP) has been a somewhat confusing journey for me. At the start I had some questions: Can I use BCS? Must I write .NET assembly connector? Can I...

Indexing of Exchange public folders is one of the less used options in FASTSearch for SharePoint. At least so it seems; I can't find any examples of people setting it up. In this example I'm using the SharePoint 2010 demo VHDs available here: 2010...