Microsoft Ratchets Up Its Enterprise Search Play

The Search Administration Dashboard found in all three Microsoft enterprise search products lets an administrator review common administrative tasks, monitor system and crawl status and configure the search settings in a single view.

The Search Center is found in all the enterprise search products, and this is where users enter search terms. The search interface has familiar features, including hit highlighting, best bets, definitions and query correction. The layout of Search Center

This is how search results are displayed in Search Center.

A query correction, as it appears in all three enterprise search products.

This is how federated search results will be displayed to users.

This slide shows reporting of information about search queries, exported to Excel.

This is where users can create e-mail alerts about changes to specified items, documents, links or libraries.

This slide shows a view of how RSS feeds are displayed in the Search Center.

Here we see Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’s reporting interface, showing search queries.

This slide shows the results of a search for colleagues, using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can find expertise and enable connections between people using dynamically updated personal profiles and social networking information, all of wh