Rich Enterprise Search

Users of SharePoint Portal Server will find that an out-of-the-box intranet installation includes a full text search engine. The focus of including this search engine was to allow groups of users, large or small, to be able to locate information no matter where it actually resides within the enterprise. This could mean all users within the enterprise could access a Human Resources site to search for the latest HR related documents, or you could have a specific business unit such as Marketing that needs specific information from the Marketing intranet. The robust search capabilities allow full text and Boolean searching in order to find the information that is desired. In addition, metadata attributes can be embedded in ...

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