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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,
Posted by Jie Li | 0 Comments
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
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Jie Li | 3 Comments
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
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:27 PM

Improve User Experience in Enterprise Search Step By Step - Part V - Relevancy Tuning by Changing Weight

In this part we will touch a little of the core relevancy model. Be careful! The modification work described in this part can be a disaster to your search result if you don't know what you are doing. The theory in this part of relevancy tuning comes from
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Jie Li | 0 Comments
Monday, December 17, 2007 1:08 PM

Subject Search Result Evaluation Tool

http://www.codeplex.com/SubjectSearchEva This is another result for Hylanda wordbreaker testing... The story is very interesting. After we got 18000+ search results for each wordbreaker, we need to evaluate the results to decide when, where and how the
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
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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Friday, November 16, 2007 1:44 PM

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

In Part I we discussed on how to change the style of the results. But this is not enough, what about to show other things in result items? (This is a request from http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2387134&SiteID=1 ) Scenario II.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:43 PM

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

Here comes the first part of my "improve user experience" series. In this part I'll cover XSLT tricks for Core result webpart in SharePoint family(WSS, MOSS, MSS, MSSE). If you are a XSLT guru, just skip this article, I'm sure many ppl can do such things
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