A critical piece of any ECM is robust search capabilities. With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft scores well in search according to Gartner in their ECM Magic Quadrant, but will fair even better next year with the enhanced search features in SharePoint 2010. Atalasoft has recognized the need to improve the retrieval of documents in SharePoint by ...

While looking into SharePoint Search Server 2008 Express and ways we can customize the search results for our customers a coworker suggested I look at Faceted Search, an Open Sourced project originally an add-on for SharePoint that’s written by Microsoft.  It was mentioned on CNet last year, hosted by CodePlex and uses the SharePoint Solution ...

In this article we’ll take a shallow look at how to customize the search results by finding the Search Core Results web part editing its output XSLT a bit.  Yes, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express has been out for quite some time, but I’ve just now started playing with it in order to work on some VizitSP items I have for our upcoming ...

It’s a cliché that nobody ever wanted a drill, they wanted a hole, but the same is true for search – nobody wants to search -- they want to find. To that end, here are some ways to make content easier to find. If you make content: Make something worth finding Name it well Put it where people will look for it Use the jargon of the ...

Wolfram Alpha is built on a curated, proprietary database created over several years by 100+ Wolfram employees. I don’t think that the details of this database have been released, but it’s clear that it isn’t something that was created by web-spidering, parsing, and organizing algorithms that search engines typically use. That’s too bad, because ...

Back in the eighties, David Letterman used to have a segment called Limited Perspective Movie Reviews, where movies would be reviewed by experts that only concentrated on a single aspect of the movie – for example, a dentist would review the teeth of the actors or a mortician would review Creepshow and only talk about how realistically the bodies ...

Welcome to the 14th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.  The Web PDF Library Search Application allows you to quickly search a large library of PDF files stored ...