Chapter 9. Advanced Search Engine Topics

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand the detailed architecture of the search engine.

  • Develop and install custom IFilters.

  • Develop and install custom protocol handlers.

  • Develop and register custom security trimmers.

  • Understand and use Faceted Search.

The topics we’ve looked at up to now in this book are actually peripheral to the core of the Enterprise Search engine. They all rely on and build on top of the basic indexing and searching features provided out-of-the-box. But the search engine itself also comes with a pluggable architecture that allows you to extend it to index other types of content sources as well as other file formats. The content crawler of the search engine connects ...

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