Special Edition Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server By Robert Ferguson
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Chapter 5. Overview of Indexing and Searching Content
SharePoint Portal Server offers a very powerful, mature search technology that makes it an effective Knowledge Discovery tool within any organization. The architecture allows searching for information in any store, indexing new content via protocol handlers in many formats, applying filters to retrieve the text from a variety of front-end and client access methods , and much more. Its feature set is robust, the result of years of research and experience with older Microsoft products. For additional detailed information on crawling content sources and managing indexing, refer to Chapters 18 and 19, respectively. If you would like to switch gears for a while, though, read on through the next few chapters as we cover SharePoint Portal Server from planning, design, and administration perspectives.
