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Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:21 AM

Search Community Toolkit on Codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/sct Richard Riley (3x to your xbox racing wheel:)) announced the new Community Toolkit project on Codeplex, which gives you a list of opensource enhancement for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint 2007. http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/03/12/search-community-toolkit.aspx
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Friday, February 29, 2008 7:17 PM

Build Custom Federated Search Connector in Microsoft Search Server (and SharePoint) - Solve Problems and Extend Your Ideas

I assume the read of this article understand what is federated search. So we already know that in order to use Federated Search webpart in Search Server, you need to provide a RSS feed to it, which can also be called "OpenSearch" stuff. But,
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:53 AM

Okay...Here comes Smart Search bug fix and installation guide...

It's my fault to ignore it for so long a time. It is not written by me originally, but by a colleague of mine, Gang Chen. But he asked me to do a favor to create a project on codeplex, so now it is maintained by me. http://www.codeplex.com/smartsearch
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:53 PM

Next steps of SharePoint Search Enhancement, and...

I was collecting feedbacks from many people these days about the enhancement we did for SharePoint Search in China. Good feedback, bad feedback, that's okay. I just put the whole list here: Search As You Type, SAYT: The live search feel for your SharePoint
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:27 PM

Faceted Search 2.0 for SharePoint/Search Server

Leonid Lyublinski released his second major version of Faceted Search today, this is a great tool that can instantly improve your SharePoint Server/Search Server user experience! It provide the following benefits: Grouping search results by facet Displaying
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:35 AM

Search as you type!

http://www.codeplex.com/SearchAsYouType This is written by my colleague Aleck. It is a "livesearch" experience on SharePoint based products, for example MSS and MOSS. It hacks the search keyword webpart with javascript code, and when you type something
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Friday, November 23, 2007 9:18 PM

Improve User Experience in Enterprise Search Step By Step - Part IV - Relevancy Tuning by WordBreaker

We have been talking about XSL/XML for so long a time. Now we want to give relevancy a shot. Hey, relevancy? Yes, relevancy. Relevancy is the most important thing for a search engine, more important than the page numbers it crawled, more important than
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:30 PM

Improve User Experience in Enterprise Search Step By Step - Part III

In the last two part we discussed XSLT change in core search result webpart of SharePoint/Microsoft Search Server. Now some of us are facing another challenge: How to add your custom properties to the result? Imagine the following scenario: In a bicycle
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