Design Goals

Knowledge discovery, as the term alludes to, is based on searching for information. For a good implementation of SharePoint Portal Server, the following major design goals must be kept in mind:

  • Timely Unless users get their search results relatively quickly, they will not use the tool. You likely know from your own experience how annoying it is to wait for the results of a query.

  • Accurate Search results should contain the specific information that has been searched for. That is, if you wonder why a specific document was included in the search results, you likely will not trust any of the results. Another example of inaccurate results would be references to documents that cannot be read by the user due to security constraints. Revealing ...

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