Managing Keywords

In the land of search, not all words have equal value. At the bottom of the food chain are noise words that are ignored when documents are indexed. At the top of the food chain are words that have special meaning, called keywords. Keywords provide the opportunity for human analysts to make search results better than they would be with just the brute force of full-text searching. Keywords mark items as particularly relevant in search results so they will be more prominently placed.

Administrators create a list of keywords for common searches, defining a hierarchy of terms that can be used for browsing and searching information (Figure 13.19). Internet Information Server (IIS) logs searches so administrators can periodically review ...

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