searching in sharepoint
DESCRIPTION
This is the presentation I gave @ SharePoint Connections 2011 in Amsterdam. It's a comparison between SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search and FAST Search for SharePoint.TRANSCRIPT
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Arno Flapper Senior consultant @ Imtech ICT Integrated Solutions
Searching in SharePoint 2010
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About me
• Senior SharePoint Consultant @ Imtech ICT Integrated
Solutions
• Frequent speaker @ Imtech Round Table sessions
• Product owner One Click Deployment for Imtech ICT
Integrated Solutions
• City counsel member in Son en Breugel
• Twitter: @FlapperA
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Overview
• Introduction
• Search explained
• Why search is important?
• Which search to choose?
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SEARCH EXPLAINED
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Why less is more?
All relevant documents
(recall)
Complete answer set
(precision)
Sweet spot
Balance between
recall, precision and relevance
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So what is a good result?
• Try to find a picture of these fruits:
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A good result is comprised of
• Relevance
• Ranking
• Understanding of the underlying user
question =>
Is an apple an apple or Apple© ?
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WHY SEARCH IS IMPORTANT?
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Searching SharePoint feels like
“Where’s Waldo?”
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An Enterprise SharePoint
environment contains: • Millions of pages, lists and documents in
different formats
• Thousands of users of different IT-skill
levels
• Structured and unstructured (meta-)data
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Target group approach
“Classic” user Searcher Social media user
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Classic user
• Needs structure
• Wants to navigate through folders
• Needs more features due to its work
• Typically:
– Administrators
– Traditional users
• Setup:
– Classic SharePoint
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Searcher
• Uses keywords to find documents
• Wants a “Google-like experience”
• Typically:
– Experienced internet users
– Knowledge workers
• Setup:
– FAST Search for SharePoint
– SharePoint Enterprise Search
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Social media user
• Values the opinion of others
• Uses the rating system
• Typically:
– Social media users
– Students => Future employees
• Setup:
– Nexocial
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Search habits and expectations
of “homo internetus” • A query is made up of no more than 3 keywords
• A query may only last 5 seconds
• The search engine should understand the underlying
question of the user
• The desired result should be on the first result page,
although some tolerate the second result page
Use this knowledge to tailor your search
or…
Know that you will have to tailor your search
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WHICH SHAREPOINT SEARCH
TO CHOOSE?
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Differences between SP 2007
and 2010
Feature Name / Area Sharepoint
Server 2007
Sharepoint
Server 2010
People And Expertise Search ○ ●
Search From Windows 7 And Windows Mobile ○ ●
Common Connector Framework For Indexing And Federation ○ ●
Scale And Performance Via Improved Topology Architecture ○ ●
Ability To Build Search-Powered Applications ○ ●
Refinement Panel And Sorting ☻
Search In Context ☻
Social Behavior Improves Relevance ☻
Thumbnails, Previews, And View In Browser ☻
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2007: Wildcard search
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2010 : Wildcard search
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Search options in SharePoint
2010 • Basic search (Included in Foundation version)
• “Intermediate” search (Included in Standard version)
• Enterprise search (Included in Enterprise version)
and
• FAST Search for SharePoint
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Enterprise Search vs FAST
Search Enterprise Search FAST Search
As Enterprise Search, but also with:
• Best visual and dynamic search
results
• Can use user context
• Can sort on any property
• Better language support
• Deep refiners with counters
• 200+ document formats supported
• Out-of-the-box thumbnail previews,
visual best best
AND:
• Property extraction !!!!!
and much more….
Out-of-the box:
• People search
• Federated search
• Refiners
• Query suggestions
• Phonetic matching
• Relevance influenced by behaviour
• Supports up to 100M documents
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Which to choose when?
• Do you own an Enterprise license and is search on a
separate server? => Use FAST (it´s free for you)
• Is your SharePoint environment an enterprise
environment? => Use FAST
• Do you employ knowledge workers? => Use FAST
• You want users to really find what they where looking for
=> Use FAST
• 100M+ documents => Use FAST
• Otherwise… the standard (enterprise) search is fine for
you
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Why not choose FAST?
• The installation process
• The configuration process
• The maintenance process
• The bugs / “features“
• Lack of multi-tenancy
• Because of the thumbnail preview feature (you can download this here: http://thumbextsp.codeplex.com for SharePoint search)
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Demonstration
FAST Search vs Enterprise Search
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Wrap up
• More information about FAST Search can be found here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/
2149.aspx (FAST Search survival guide)
• FAST Search forum @ Microsoft:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-
US/fastsharepoint/threads
• Time (and sometimes life saver):
http://gavinmckay.wordpress.com
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QUESTIONS? Imtech ICT Integrated Solutions
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End of presentation
Arno Flapper
Imtech ICT Integrated Solutions
Hogeweg 41| 5301 LJ, Zaltbommel
T. +31 (0)418 57 07 00 | F. +31 (0)418 57 07 66 | W. www.imtech.nl/is
www.imtech-ict.nl
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