Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Chapter 13. Search Engine

Searching has become a serious challenge for the enterprise. Your portal by now contains a plethora of content, ranging from structured data in relational databases to unstructured data such as web content and documents. The data is stored in a number of formats and scattered across multiple locations. In most cases, the metadata is incomplete and inaccurate. For instance, how many users do you know who accurately fill in the title and author in the properties of Word documents? I confess that I often end up copying documents and moving sections around so much that I am surprised to see the contents of the document properties. With the increase in team collaboration online, critical documents may be located in collaboration ...