Creating and Managing Search Scopes

In the previous section on managed properties, we described how to create a search scope. In this section, we discuss some of the additional administrative actions that you can perform regarding search scopes.

First, you can create search scopes and associate one or more rules within the scope to help define its focus or breadth. To create a new scope, refer to the section on Metadata Property Mappings.

Second, search scopes that you create at the SSP level are considered shared scopes. This means that these scopes are shared across all of the Web application's site collections that are associated with the SSP. Site collection owners then have the choice whether to use the scope within their site collection.

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