Microsoft 2007 User Manual
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Feature Area
Features
Uniform, Scalable
User Experience
User Experience
Enhanced
Microsoft Search provides a significantly enhanced user experience
including the following:
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Improved rendering of search results
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Hit highlighting
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Duplicate and near-duplicate collapsing
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Improved Best Bets keyword searching (including support for keyword
definitions)
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Automatic generation of “Do you mean” synonym search keywords
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New Search Center for initiating queries and browsing search results
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Enhanced query syntax including support for implicit industry
standards for full text and property-based searching
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Ability to subscribe to a search query and receive e-mail alerts when
changes occur in the results of a persisted search query
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Ability to reuse and adapt the query and search results Web Parts to
more easily create customized search solutions for your organization
Content Sources
Enhanced
Microsoft Search permits many additional types of enterprise content and
LOB application data to be searched, including:
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LOB application data and reports indexed and retrieved through the
Business Data Catalog.
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Enhanced user profile or people-based search.
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People-based searching for colleagues and other people who share a
set of common interests.
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Improved threaded-discussion searching.
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Continued support for third-party repositories using custom protocol
handlers and IFilters.
More information about Business Data Catalog can be found in the BI
functions in the Features at a Glance section.