Microsoft Announces Search Server Express 2008 Competes with Google Mini and Google Search Appliance
Microsoft announced Search Server Express today the features include:
- Go from downloading to searching in minutes with a streamlined installation experience, making it easy to get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment quickly.
- Review common administrative tasks, status, and settings in a single view using a unified administrative dashboard.
- Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other relevance tuning through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.
- Help ensure only the right people can find information using query and index-time security trimming.
- Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.
- Empower your users to quickly find the information they need through a familiar Search Center interface
- Pinpoint the most relevant information you need with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.
- Retrieve concise and clear search results with duplicate collapsing, allowing you to quickly review a wide variety of relevant information.
- Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your search results using e-mail and RSS alerts.
- Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results.
- Provide a search capability optimized for business data to deliver highly relevant results across intranet and public-facing web site content. Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits.
- Find information across a variety of business applications and services using federated search connectors.
- Upgrade to a multi-server topology with Microsoft Search Server 2008.
- Upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 when you need to easily index structured information and expertise information , or add enterprise content management, collaboration, or other complementary capabilities to your business productivity infrastructure.