Search Features in Office SharePoint Server

Search Features in Office SharePoint Server
Search in Office SharePoint Server unlocks unstructured and structured information and enables users to find people and expertise. Enterprise Search features are optimized to let people in the organization quickly connect with the information they need, helping users more quickly identify the results that are relevant to them and helping administrators to manage, deploy, and secure the search infrastructure.
Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server — Version Comparison
The following table describes new or expanded search capabilities, and differences between Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The rest of this guide provides more-detailed information about new and enhanced searching capabilities in Office SharePoint Server 2007.


Search User Experience
Searching with Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides benefits for end users and IT professionals administering the system. Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services now share a common implementation of Microsoft Search, providing a more-consistent and more-efficient user experience. The new browser-based Search Center interface is simple, flexible, and highly customizable. It ships with Search tabs that allow users to search across different types of data. Additional tabs can be added easily to the Search Center to create a targeted search experience.
New or enhanced user interface features include keyword search, highlighting of search terms, “Did you mean” spelling suggestions, duplicates collapsing, and definition extraction. These enhancements help users quickly identify the results that are relevant to them. The new capability to subscribe to an RSS feed or sign up for search alerts helps users stay updated with the information they care about without constantly needing to search for the same information again and again.

For More Information
Visit the Office Online Products Home Page (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=78509&clcid=0x409). This Web site features the latest news and information about the Microsoft Office 2007 system, including product information, case studies, white papers, information about related technologies, and more.
See also:
· Office SharePoint Server home page on Office Online (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80123&clcid=0x409)
· Office SharePoint Server for Search home page on Office Online (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80124&clcid=0x409)
· Searching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80127&clcid=0x409)
· Office SharePoint Server TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80125&clcid=0x409)
· Office SharePoint Server for Search TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80126&clcid=0x409)
· Office SharePoint Server ELearning (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80128&clcid=0x409)