http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspxAs I’m drafting the Vision/Scope document for the SharePointPedia (more info on this very soon), one of the key functional requirements that I’ve specified is the ability to do a unified search of SharePoint centric information sources on the Web. I haden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#867891Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:48:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:867891andyed<p>That's great Lawrence. &nbsp;I encourage you to also consider a macro that includes your external community.</p> <p>For instance, the macro currently includes only 700 of 7000 pages linked to by the sharepointblogs site. &nbsp;You can include those additional 7k pages with:</p> <p>linkfromdomain:sharepointblogs.com</p> <p>There are 44k pages that link to sharepoint blogs: linkdomain:sharepointblogs.com</p> <p>In this case, the inbound links (linkdomain) look more relevant than the outbound (linkfromdomain).</p> <p>To reduce the off topic content, while still getting the neighborhood, try requiring the keyword sharepoint or promoting it with OR:</p> <p>sharepoint (linkfromdomain:sharepointblogs.com | linkdomain:sharepointblogs)</p> <p>versus </p> <p>(sharepoint | linkfromdomain:sharepointblogs.com | linkdomain:sharepointblogs)</p> <p>Try this one on for size: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%28sharepoint+%7C+linkfromdomain%3Asharepointblogs.com+%7C+linkdomain%3Asharepointblogs%29&amp;mkt=en-US">http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%28sharepoint+%7C+linkfromdomain%3Asharepointblogs.com+%7C+linkdomain%3Asharepointblogs%29&amp;mkt=en-US</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#868123Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:08:45 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:868123Michael Gannotti<p>Great stuff!</p> <p>It would be very cool to see a web part for this for inclusion on Sharepoint driven community sites.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#877708Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:42:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:877708Digitalmelon : Chandima's Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#1081319Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:59:26 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1081319Mark Kruger, WSS MVP<p>Very nice! </p>http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#1081342Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:16:55 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1081342The Boiler Room - Mark Kruger, SharePoint MVP<p>If you havent had the chance to check out the SharePoint Community Search, you're missing out. ...</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/24/introducing-sharepoint-community-search-powered-by-a-windows-live-search-macro.aspx#1207774Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:02:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1207774bowerm<p>Doesn't seem to be working. &nbsp;I just tried a search for BDC and get page after page of results for www.bdc.co.uk - an electrical goods supplier :(</p>