Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search Solution helps organization increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing their employees, partners, and customers the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats.
In Office SharePoint Server 2007, search results are delivered quickly and relevance is tuned for enterprise and line-of-business data. Following are the features of Search component:
The following table outlines and compares the enterprise search features included in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise. (Source: Microsoft)
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= Feature Included
= Improved in 2007
= New in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Features
SharePoint Portal Server 2003
SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
User interface
Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard query syntax. Scopes are decoupled from content sources so users can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search can be based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and author. Actionable search results can be easily filtered and sorted, used, and shared. Alerts and RSS feeds easily provide updated results for common and frequent queries.
Search results
Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security trimmed so users only see what they can access. Results include user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing and synonym suggestion. Optional integration with real-time communications tools allow users to easily contact content authors and experts.
Enterprise content sources
Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out-of-the-box with the ability to extend to additional third party repositories and filetypes through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters.
Relevance
New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yield the best results for enterprise content.
Administration and management
Improved administration user interfaces and admin application programming interface (API) provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting.
Indexing controls
Granular indexing controls for easy inclusion and exclusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; a new browse-able, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search.
Security
Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. Access control list (ACL) and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of intellectual property (IP). Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access.
People search
People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
Salient Features
A robust application that lets you manage your content and
documentation processes effectively.
Set up sites and collaborative work spaces to create and share
documents.
Offer enterprise-class management tools to manage and secure work spaces.
Restricted access to critical
documents that protects data integrity.
Store and retrieve documents and go paperless and reduce your printing and shipping costs.