1. Agenda: Solomon N’Jie Overview Microsoft Enterprise Search Solution
Enterprise Search Platform (MOSS 07)
Desktop Search solutions (Vista, WDS, Live)
Search Information
Solomon N’Jie
Microsoft Enterprise Search Manager UK

2. Find information across the desktop, intranet and Internet
Use
Share
Find
Find information across the desktop, intranet and Internet
Use information via intuitive, familiar interfaces
Share information among teams and connect people in real-time
Microsoft Search Solutions enable professionals to find, use and share relevant business data quickly, easily and securely.
This is an important distinction and something that many other search vendors don’t address. Many search vendors provide search functionality, but don’t provide the ability to quickly and easily use and share information once it’s found.
Microsoft is investing heavily in our search technology to ensure information workers spend less time searching for information by making it easier to find what they’re looking for – because information workers don’t want to search…they want to find! But we also know that finding information is just the first step in a typical business process or task. So we are making sure that our search technology is integrated with familiar applications and user interfaces so information workers can easily use and share the information they find.
With the combination of enterprise-grade relevance and ranking, actionable search results, and integrated search and productivity technologies we make information workers more productive by allowing them to find, use and share the information they need.
With this in mind, let’s look at how Microsoft is addressing your search challenges with our search solutions strategy…

3. Microsoft Search Solutions
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Microsoft Search Solutions
Integrated User Experience
Company Network
Unlock Data and Expertise
Built for the Enterprise
Business Data
Web
Web
Desktop
Desktop
Company Network
Company Network
People and Experts
With content on desktops, corporate intranets, and public websites, companies require a number of search solutions – desktop search, intranet search and web (Internet) search. Microsoft offers solutions for all three search areas.
Microsoft Search solutions provide search tools that deliver enterprise-grade features and functionality, seamless access to your business data and expertise, and a fully integrated user experience.
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Multiple disconnected search tools are the norm today. Microsoft’s strategy is to deliver an integrated user experience for desktop, intranet, and web search – allowing users to quickly find information regardless of where it’s located. This not only means integration between various search tools, but also making search pervasive across familiar applications and interfaces – letting users find information in-context of where they are working – whether that be on their Windows desktop, on their portal or team sites, or within their Microsoft Office applications.
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A second tenet of our search solutions strategy is to unlock the vast amounts of data and expertise that exists in your company. 80% of a company’s information is stored in unstructured form – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. This information is spread across the enterprise on file shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, and in repositories like Exchange public folders, Lotus Notes databases and others. Though users may have access to these common repositories, the sheer amount of information makes it so difficult to find the right information that it may as well be unavailable.
The other 20% of a company’s information – financials, inventory, customer records, and so forth -- is stored in structured repositories like relational databases and line-of-business applications. While users may be able to access various unstructured sources, structured resources like LOB applications are often either restricted to a few users who must provide information to others through manual reports, for example; or requires information workers to learn and use application-specific search tools to find the information they need.
We know that common business processes require information workers to use information from multiple structured and unstructured repositories; so with Microsoft search solutions for intranets, we deliver search technology that can search across various structured and unstructured repositories and return a unified set of relevant results in familiar interfaces and applications.
But data is only half of the equation. Some sources suggest that up to 80% of the knowledge that exists in an organization is considered to be “tacit knowledge”—information that is undocumented and therefore difficult to access. People leverage tacit knowledge by tapping into their social networks to discover who can help them. In a sense, people are the gateways to tacit knowledge. Microsoft search solutions brings together the worlds of social networking and expertise location to solve the tacit knowledge problem.
By providing the ability to search for people inside and external to your company based on skills, areas of expertise, social distance to you or those you know, and a host of other criteria, Microsoft search solutions help you tap the most valuable resource you have – your people.
Last, but certainly not least, we’re building all our search solutions for the enterprise. Leveraging our years of experience building enterprise software and working with enterprise customers, we are building search solutions that are secure, scalable, manageable and extensible with the simplicity and ease of use desired by small and large companies alike.
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Today we offer a set of integrated search solutions with these products: MSN Search for the web, Windows Desktop Search for the desktop, and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for the intranet.
In the second half of 2006 we will deliver our next generation search solutions: Windows Live Search for the web, a new version of Windows Desktop search built into Windows Vista (also available as a separate application for Windows XP), and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for the intranet.
We are making huge strides in improving these solutions following our strategy and based on your feedback. In fact, feedback from customers has highlighted the need for a single, consolidated view of search results from various sources. Federated results from the web, desktop, and intranet that can be easily viewed, managed, and acted upon. In response, Microsoft is delivering Windows Live Search for the desktop – an application that provides one view of the information you need – no matter where it’s located.
So let’s take a look at each of these search solutions as well as how they work together today and going forward to provide you with the best search solution for your enterprise.
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4. Increasing the value of your investment
Enterprise Search from Microsoft
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Increasing the value of your investment
Adding new capabilities from both ends of the market
Enterprise Search
from Microsoft
Features
Cost
Business Productivity Infrastructure
Entry-Level
Search Solutions
Features
Cost
Enterprise
Search Solutions
Features
Cost
Specialized
Search Solutions
Features
Cost
We think the 2007 Office system changes the game in two ways. (See “Additional Notes” below for the full talk track.)
Going forward we’ll build on this strategy and increase the value of your investment by adding new capabilities from both ends of the market.
We’ll incorporate the design principles of simplicity and ease-of-use that characterize the Entry-Level.
And we’ll invest in Specialized information management capabilities to enable targeted business scenarios.
[Additional Notes]
Traditionally, the search market has offered two types of solutions: entry-level search solutions and specialized search solutions.
Entry-Level search solutions typically take Internet search technologies and apply them to the enterprise environment. They offer a basic feature set at a low cost.
Specialized search solutions are at the other end of the spectrum. Solutions in this category are feature rich and offer a wide variety of functionality for both the end user and the administrator. But the additional features can come with a hefty price tag.
Enterprise Search from Microsoft is changing competitive landscape in two important ways.
First, our solution offers a unique combination of functionality at a very competitive price point, creating a new category in the market—a category that we think represents true Enterprise Search.
Second, our integration with the Windows desktop and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server means that Enterprise Search from Microsoft is an integral part of a broader business productivity infrastructure. In essence, we’ve added a whole new dimension to the Search discussion.
This has three benefits:
Out-of-the-box integration Search as an integral part of a business productivity platform means that search is integrated with your collaboration, portal, content management, and business process platform—right out-of-the-box.
Rich, actionable interfaces Search as an integral part of a business productivity platform not only helps people find what they need, but also helps them do something meaningful with what they’ve found. Rich, actionable interfaces in Office SharePoint Server, Windows, and business productivity applications like Microsoft Outlook make it easy to turn search results into action.
Reduced IT costs Search as an integral part of a business productivity platform helps IT professionals consolidate their investments and reduce the costs associated with buying, implementing, and maintaining individual applications.
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5. Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 features
Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence
Collaboration
Portal
Platform
Services
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control
Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO
Business Forms
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a business productivity platform that combines collaborative workspaces, portal sites, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities, workflows, forms management, business intelligence, and searching into one integrated system. Using Office SharePoint Server 2007, IT professionals can provide an environment for business users to collaborate more effectively, streamline business processes, and make better decisions.
The search capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 empower people to find information and expertise anywhere in the organization, including in SharePoint document repositories, portal sites, records management vaults, and collaborative workspaces; in line-of-business systems and other structured data sources; and in internal or external Web sites.
The following editions of Office SharePoint Server 2007 are available:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Standard CAL: This product enables a user to access the collaboration, portal, search, and enterprise content management capabilities of Office SharePoint Server However, the Business Data Catalog feature (which provides support for searching structured data sources) is not available in this edition.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Standard plus Enterprise CAL: This product contains all of the capabilities above plus business processes and forms (such as Web-based Microsoft Office InfoPath® forms); business intelligence (including report center sites, interactive dashboards, and Microsoft Excel® Services); and the Business Data Catalog (which enables line-of-business and structured data searching).
Content
Management
Search
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business data search
Partner Search Solutions
Nested taxonomy structures, Industry-specific scenarios, Concept-based search, Customised user interface, SI Services, Outsourcing, etc

6. Intranet Solutions Find content scattered throughout the Enterprise
User Experience - Relevant, Actionable Results
Best results on the first page, every time
Query correction, hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing
One-stop search for any enterprise repository
Integration with presence and real-time communications
Security-trimmed results
Data & Expertise - People and Data Equally Important
Out-of-the-box search for file shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange PFs, and Lotus Notes DBs
Index data & display results from LOB app’s & other structured data sources using BDC
Find people using expertise, DL memberships, keywords & dynamically updated social networks
Enterprise & IT - Designed for Business
Ranking algorithm tuned for business content
Scales to over 50 million documents
Granular index control and custom administration tools
Robust security to ensure compliance and protect IP
Comprehensive monitoring, analytics, and reporting
[User Experience]
At the heart of intranet search is relevance. Relevance is a measure of how well the results returned by a search system meet the user’s information needs. Given a user query, the primary purpose of a search system is to pick out from what could be millions of indexed documents the most relevant items and return them to the user in an order that places the most relevant highest up in the results set.
A search engine built to crawl, index and rank the highly linked content found on the Internet is not going to provide the best results on a company’s intranet where documents and data are generally not linked at all. Using our years of enterprise experience along with new search algorithms and relevancy ‘ingredients’ developed by Microsoft Research, Microsoft is able to deliver results tuned for the various content sources you search. In fact, Microsoft search solutions for the web (MSN and Windows Live Search) use very different algorithms and relevancy ‘ingredients’ than SharePoint Server does. This is absolutely necessary as the content sources are very different. By tuning our search solutions appropriately, Microsoft can provide great results on the web and the intranet to meet your business needs. [A list of
With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, our goal is to provide the most relevant results on the first page – every time. This is not a trivial task – it requires search engine technology designed and tuned for business data.
To that end, SharePoint Portal Server 2007 offers the following user interface enhancements:
Aside from the very important task of providing highly relevant results, Microsoft is focused on making sure results are presented to the user in a way that makes them immediately useful and actionable.
Duplicate collapsing – when multiple results (or very similar results) are returned, the search engine will ‘collapse’ the multiple results into one item and offer the user the option of displaying the additional items found. This helps streamline results for situations where multiple copies of the same document or very similar document exists on different sites or locations, for example.
Hit Highlighting – query terms are highlighted (bolded font) on the results page so a user can easily see the context in which the terms were found
Query correction – the Search engine will suggest alternate queries for misspelled words (“Did you mean xxx?” functionality). These suggested queries can be actioned by simply clicking on the link presented.
SharePoint Server also provides ‘one-stop search’ for any enterprise repository. Whether structured or unstructured, Microsoft or 3rd party; SharePoint search can provide a federated set of results from all your enterprise systems. This integration and federation can be done in a number of ways – out of the box support for common content sources; extensibility using 3rd party and custom-built protocol handlers and IFilters; or using the Business Data Catalog.
Integration with real-time communications (Microsoft Office Live Communications Server) is one of the ways we make results actionable. Through integration with LCS information workers can quickly contact the author of a document/subject matter expert – whether they wish to do so by instant message, phone, , or even schedule a meeting – right from the results page.
While in many ways search is about uncovering information and making it accessible to users, it’s just as important that users only see the information they are allowed to see. SharePoint Server is able to provide security trimming of results – the results a user is presented with represent only content they are allowed to access (based on the content permissions). Not only is this necessary for security purposes, compliance, privacy and the protection of IP, but it enhances the user experience by avoiding users clicking on results only to find they don’t have access to the content.
[Data and Expertise]
Searching for people and data is equally important and SharePoint Server provides a way to tap your very valuable people and technology resources.
SharePoint Server provides out of the box support for common enterprise repositories – file shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes databases. This list of content sources can be extended through the use of protocol handlers and ifilters which allow SharePoint Server to crawl and index content in other 3rd party repositories (e.g. Documentum repositories using the protocol handler provided by Vorsite, a Microsoft Partner).
Using the Business Data Catalog, a way to provide reusable connections to structured data sources, information from LOB applications, relational databases, and other structured content can not only be crawled, indexed, and searched, but also be displayed within SharePoint web parts and lists. Using this great new technology, Microsoft is helping business unlock their line of business data and get the most out of their business systems.
SharePoint Server provides ‘people search’ out of the box. Based on user’s directory attributes, organizational structure, keywords in a user’s SharePoint profile and group memberships, Information Workers can search for people and subject matter experts across their organization. However, this OOB people search can be extended with Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – a web download at no additional cost to customers who are licensed to use MOSS 2007.
Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is all about people connections. It provides the tools to enable people to connect with key contacts and experts both internal and external to an organization, making it easy to search for undocumented knowledge and relationships while keeping personal information private. As the importance of collaboration continues to increase both internal and external to organizations, we believe a tool that streamlines the process of finding the right people can be a competitive advantage over companies that are still struggling to make connections the old-fashioned way.
Knowledge Network creates a member profile by primarily searching through local Outlook data store on the primary PC. Members can choose to include archived in the analysis as well. The keywords and contacts are derived from the header, subject line and the first few paragraphs of s that are included in the member’s approved search targets. Then Knowledge Network creates a profile based on the key contacts and keywords that were collected during the analysis. In our first release, the main focus is on content; however, for future versions, we are exploring other data sources as well.
We have a very strong privacy model in place – NCC stands for Notification, Control and Consent. What that means is that every member of the Knowledge Network has control over the information that gets shared with others. First we Notify each member about how their profile is created, then we give Control to each member to decide which information they would like to include in their profile. After the analysis runs and the profile is created, each member then gets to review it before granting Consent to publish their profile. In addition, Knowledge Network stays within an organization’s firewall, so it is not sent to Microsoft nor does it reside on the Internet like some other social network applications.
Many companies created expertise databases only to find that the information is quickly outdata, rarely (if ever) updated by the users, and soon becomes less than useful to the changing organization. Using Knowledge Network provides a means for companies to have dynamically updated expertise profiles – Knowledge Network will search and present new keywords and contacts for the user’s approval and publication to SharePoint so that users searching for people and experts get relevant, up-to-date results…and can easily contact the relevant people right from the search results.
[Enterprise and IT]
Microsoft has built SharePoint Server for the enterprise – with the necessary security, scalability, extensibility, and manageability required by the largest of companies paired with the simplicity and ease of use demanded by smaller companies.
As was noted earlier, relevance and ranking are key to great search results. It’s through having a search engine that’s tuned for business content that accurate relevance and ranking are realized. Some of the ‘ingredients’ that go into the ranking of results from SharePoint Server are listed below.
SharePoint Server has currently been tested (Beta 2 testing) to 50 million documents in a single index – enough to meet the demands of the largest companies. Even so, there will be no imposed document scale limit for SharePoint Server 2007 – it is limited only by hardware.
To help administrators effectively manage search within their enterprise, SharePoint Server provides granular index control – not only the ability to define what is included/excluded at a very fine level but also the ability to immediately exclude sites and documents that should be removed from the index. In addition, the Admin API allows for the creation of custom admin tools to help with automated deployments, create custom keyword management tools, or tools to help with common tasks like password rollovers.
The indexing engine used for all Microsoft search applications is from a common code base. This enables common functionality and extensibility between the applications that use it. An iFilter or protocol handler written for Windows Desktop Search will work on SharePoint Server, for example.
System security is always a priority and SharePoint Server leverages the security provided by Windows Server. Together with comprehensive monitoring, analytics and reporting, SharePoint Server gives IT the tools they need to deliver a secure, scalable, extensible, and manageable search solution for the enterprise.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services “v3” contain several new ranking elements explained below (This is not a complete list).
Click Distance.  Start at a given site – say, the enterprise portal home page – and count how many clicks it takes to browse to another given document.  We refer to the minimum such number as the “click distance”.  We have discovered that documents that are closer to authoritative sites in the organization, as measured by click distance, tend to be more relevant than documents that are further away.   Therefore, one of the key new factors in the ranking algorithm is click distance, and to facilitate its calculation the system enables the administrator to identify the sites in the organization that are authoritative – sites such as enterprise and divisional portal home pages.
URL Depth.  A URL can be characterized by its depth – that is, how many virtual subdirectories below the root it sits.  Another way to think about this is, how many “slashes” appear in the URL after the host name?  For example, a page such as would have a URL depth of 1, whereas would have a depth of 4.  As with click distance, we have discovered empirically that URL depth tends to correlate with relevance, such that pages with lower URL depth tend to be more relevant than pages with higher URL depth.  This therefore becomes another factor at work in the SharePoint ranking system.
Anchor Text.  Every hyperlink (or “anchor”) acts as a sort of comment on the document to which it points.  The comment is in fact the text inside the anchor, the text that appears as the link the user clicks on in order to navigate to the target page.  Often times anchor text serves as more accurate metadata for the referent document than the document’s own metadata, especially in the aggregate across all links to the document.  Moreover, anchor text will often capture variant descriptions of the referent document that are accurate and yet not used in the document itself.  These qualities of anchors make them important ingredients in the SharePoint Search 12 ranking algorithm, just as they are for Internet search engines.
Metadata Extraction.  As noted above, key metadata on enterprise content is often wrong.  Author properties frequently contain the template author’s name; Title properties frequently contain templated or automatic titles, which often bear comically little relationship to the actual content of the document; Keyword properties often contain junk or nothing at all.  And yet all these fields (and others), when they contain correct values, are extremely useful for the ranking engine.  To compensate for poor metadata, SharePoint Search is now able to automatically extract what are likely to be the correct metadata values from the content itself, which is then used it the relevance engine to augment ranking across the standard metadata. 
File Type Priors.  We call any content attribute that correlates with relevance across all possible queries a “prior”.  One of the most important priors we have discovered is simply the type of the document – which is to say, some types of documents (such as HTML and word processing docs) are a priori more relevant than others (such as spreadsheets).  We therefore use this as another ingredient in the SharePoint Search ranking algorithm.
Automatic Language Detection.  Language is also a strong prior.  If you speak Finnish than its more likely you’re looking for documents in Finnish than in Japanese.  We can put this insight to use straightforwardly in the ranking algorithm, but the problem is that the language of a document, just like the author and title, is often set improperly or just plain missing.  To compensate for this, we have therefore developed automatic language detection technology that will recognize documents in over 50 languages.  With this technology we’re able to reliably capture the language of a document and thus put language priors to use.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
One of the biggest problems with “metadata” in an organization is not the technology, it’s the adoption. Most information workers don’t tag content; they don’t take the time to categorize content. In Office 12 we’re making significant investments not only on the technology side, to be able to put a policy on a specific piece of content with rules, but to address the adoption issue as well. With richer integration with the Office client, information workers will be able to easily enter metadata within applications like Word and at the same time, IT can define the Metadata rules centrally on the server.
[Metadata]
Foreign schema’s can be mapped into the next release of SharePoint Portal Server’s indexing engine. Irrespective of where the content is stored SharePoint Portal Server will understand the different schemas. For example, if you are searching repositories A and B and in repository A an attribute is “name” and in B it’s “customer”, you can map these to one field “customer name” in the Search system. This vastly simplifies the queries users issue to find information, “Customer Name” means Customer Name no matter where the information was crawled.
[Schema Mapping]

7. Architecture Overview

8. Create search alerts to let you know when new results are found
Advanced options
Tabbed user interface
Search scopes
Create search alerts to let you know when new results are found
[Tabbed User Interface & Search Center]
The improvements begin with a new, extensible UI framework called the Search Center. Using the same tabbed interface to which users have grown accustomed on Internet search sites, the Search Center helps to set the user’s expectations, up front, about what broad categories of content can be searched on this site. The Search Center has default tabs for All Sites, People, and Discussions. But perhaps more importantly administrators can add tabs that make sense in their specific business environment. For example, a divisional portal in the tools division of a large industrial manufacturer might have a tab focused on search over tool specifications. Likewise an Internet point-of-presence site for a consulting firm might have a tab specifically for searching case studies. So, just as on Internet search sites, tabs help to communicate to users what they can expect to find via search.
[Query Correction]
“Did you mean” query suggestions. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will suggest a new query to try when it detects a misspelling in the original query. The lexicon against which the system checks the query is comprised of a standard word list in the current language (aka a dictionary) plus a set of commonly-used terms mined directly from the index. Because of this index mining, the system is able to suggest query terms that are enterprise or domain specific (such as acronyms) and which would not appear in a standard dictionary.
Query correction
“Did you mean…?”
Hit highlighting

9. View by relevance or social distance
Various properties allow users to refine results with just one click. For example, you can easily narrow results to the Operations department by selecting “Operations” from the left “Refine Your Search” menu.
Results can be sorted by relevance (based on the user’s query) or by social distance (user’s query combined with how near or far the user is in the organization compared to the people returned by the query – based on directory structure).
Integration with real-time communications (Live Communications Server and Communicator) provide actionable results whereby the user may easily IM, , call, schedule a meeting, etc. with the relevant contact.
Refine results using various properties
Integration with real time communications

10. Organization hierarchy
Display user information
User profile
Social network
Organization hierarchy
Diary and contact info

11. DEMO

12. Integrate with Internet services like location mapping
Update customer information
Customer satisfaction history
Integrate with and launch CRM business processes
Unlocking line of business data is just the first step. SharePoint Server allows you to view and interact this the ‘unlocked’ information in meaningful ways.
On this page we see an example of a customer record made up of information from various sources. A user just did a search for a customer using SharePoint Server and by clicking on the returned link, they can easily see information from these sources in one place – no need to figure out which system holds the data, how to use the system, how to search it, how to match up the disparate information themselves, etc.
In this example, a sales person is looking at a customer record and sees:
Key customer contacts (including addresses which they can simply click to send )
Customer support incidents coming from their CRM system (e.g. Siebel)
Customer details (address, phone number, nature of the business relationship, etc.) coming from their LOB system (e.g. SAP)
The ability to escalate a support incident directly from this page (ties to backend CRM processes)
“Mash-ups” of relevant services (e.g. view and print a map of where this customer is located). The address from the LOB system (displayed in the top left webpart) is automatically sent as part of the querty to the Window Live Local service which returns a map and can further give driving directions
The ability to update the customer information stored in the LOB system using. For example, this button can launch an InfoPath form which provides a means to capture customer record changes in an electronic form and pass these changes as XML to the backend system
Customer sat history coming from the CRM system
Customer details
Customer support history
Key contacts

13. Search Solutions - Feature Comparison
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition)
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition)
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Standard CAL)
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Enterprise CAL)
Search File shares, Web Sites, SharePoint Sites, Exchange PFs, Notes DBs OOB (out of the box) X
Search 3rd Party Document Repositories
Indexes 200 File Types OOB (extensible)
Secure Content Access Control
Search for People and Expertise
Enhanced Search Center UI
Search Structured Data Sources
Document Limit
500,000
No Limit*
*Dependent on hardware. Performance tested to 50M docs in a single index 13

14. Windows Desktop Search
Filter results by type
Categorized search results as you type
Rich previews

15. Search integrated with familiar applications and experiences
In Windows Vista you can think of Windows Desktop Search as more of a service – it’s built right into the operating system and allows us to provide truly pervasive desktop search – a search box is available where ever you happen to be working.
To find a file with Windows Vista, you need only to remember something about it, such as a word contained within a document, the author of a presentation, or the date a picture was taken. Powerful, integrated desktop search capabilities help you find just about anything on your computer quickly, without having to search for it by browsing through folders.
For example, in the new Start Menu, it is as simple as typing a word, a phrase, a property, or any part of a file name into the embedded Quick Search box to instantly find the file that you want.
Quick Search is available in any Explorer window, giving you easy access to your information anytime you need it.
Categorized search as you type – right from the Start Button

16. Virtual Folders Flexible, query-based views of your files
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Virtual Folders Flexible, query-based views of your files
Traditional Folders Location-based views of your files
While desktop search is a much-needed tool for effective information management, it does not solve all information management needs. Windows Vista combines search and organization to let you see and work with your files in ways that you never could before.
Virtual Folders: Windows Vista introduces a new organizational concept called a Virtual Folder, which is simply a saved search or “virtual” view that is instantly run when you open the folder. Subsequently, any time you click on a Virtual Folder, like author, Windows Vista instantly looks across your PC and organizes all of your documents into neat stacks by author. You don’t have to worry about where you’ve physically stored your files on your PC. Vista takes care of the organization for you. Windows Vista will ship with many standard, preconfigured Virtual Folders, but you can create your own as well.
Traditional Folders: Show you the “traditional” view of where documents and items are stored inside of true folders on your PC. They are indicated by the yellow color.
Preview & Navigation panes: Windows Vista provides many ways to tag existing files, including the Navigation Pane or the Preview Pane. The Navigation Pane shows both folders and Virtual Folders intermingled on one control. You can select multiple items and drag those items onto any Virtual Folder in the Navigation Pane, instantly tagging those files with a given property; or you can select one or more files and manually change proprieties directly in the Preview Pane. Windows Vista also provides easy ways to add metadata to files at the time you save the file when you use supporting applications.
Live Icons: New live icons helps you see past generic application icons, giving you live previews of applications, documents, photos and videos and the data underneath.
Preview Pane Rich information about whatever file you select
“Live Icons” Actual screen shots of content, instead of generic file icons 16
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17. Windows Live Search Tabbed search results
Easily search within a site from the results list
Unlimited scroll – all results on one page
Slider to customize level of detail

18. MS Enterprise Search Information

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Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation.
MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
© 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.