How Microsoft SPS Crawls
Different portal products emphasize various features, such as document management, personalization, threaded discussions, and so on. But the most pervasive feature in any Portal product is the ability to facilitate searching by crawling, indexing, analyzing, and sorting large quantities of data. In this way, the portal becomes a capable machine for turning raw data into real information, whether the data resides on a corporate intranet or across the globe.
To crawl simply means to search through content for inclusion in an index. Once indexed, the data may then be sorted into various categories or classifications according to a set of rules—the taxonomy. The taxonomy organizes the data around business-oriented customer-driven ...
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