SharePoint Search+

Nick KellettChief Technical Officer, StoneShare Inc.

http://planetmoss.blogspot.com nkellett@stoneshare.com @NickKellett

SharePoint Search+

Agenda• What is Search+?• Gather Content Together• Make It Easy to Find• Make It Appealing• Act on it!• Q&A

What is Search+?

• Berry-picking information foragers• Search+ is a set of search concepts:

– Gather content together– Make it easy to find– Make it appealing– Act on it!

• The end result: Dynamic user experiences driven by search activities

Gather Content Together

• How Search Federation works• Federated Search Connectors• Federation across SharePoint farms• Federation across live web services• Possible Impacts

Gather Content Together

• YouTube Federation

Make It Easy To Find

• Content is EVERYWHERE• Its value depends on its context• Search experiences should be everywhere too• Navigation: Users either browse OR search• Fixed keyword queries

Make It Easy To Find

• Aggregate all the site content into a rollup list

Make It Appealing

• Thumbnail Previews• Search Tag Clouds• My Saved Searches

Act On It!

• Search Alerts and RSS Feeds• Search Result Actions• Real World Examples:

– eDiscovery– Bulk archive search results using workflow– MeSH Search: Combining Managed Metadata terms

with search results

Act On It!

OOTB Search Experience: Limited set of actions

Act On It!

Search+ Experience: Results are a gateway to infinite user actions

Act On It!

Search+ Experience: Real World Examples: eDiscovery

Q/A & Contact Details

Nick KellettChief Technical Officer, StoneShare Inc.

http://planetmoss.blogspot.com nkellett@stoneshare.com @NickKellett

Josh NobleDirector of Sales, Americas & OceaniaAuthor: Pro SharePoint 2010 Search http://www.prosharepointsearch.com/

jno@surfray.com@SurfRay

Additional Resources

Our SharePoint Search Video Webinars:http://surfray.com/resources/webcasts.html

Nick Kellett- Planet MOSShttp://planetmoss.blogspot.com

Free Ontolica Search Results WebParthttp://www.surfray.com/resources/ontolica-free-result-action-web-part.html