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SharePoint 2010
Search Baby Search

2. Why is Search Important?
 Saves Time (which saves money)
 Average Industry Metric: Up to 25% of an employee’s
time is spent looking for the same information
 Ouch. So an employee earning $40k a year is costing you
$10k alone in time lost… multiple that by X and wow!
 And that other metric: Users spend 10% of their time,
recreating information they can’t find
 Ouch. So that’s another $4k per year for that user, of which
they are adding to crappy search results (adding to the
clutter)

3. How Has Search Improved in 2010?
 Yeesh. How has it not improved?
 Wildcard Search
 Boolean (and/or/not) and Partial Word Search
 Refinement Panel
 More Flavours/Offerings:
 Search Server Express 2010
 SharePoint Server
 Fast Search

4. Searching vs. Filtering
 Search utilizes content that has been
‘crawled/indexed’)
 A search is performed using an input box and a
button, placement is up to you
 Filtering is breaking down data real-time in a
list or library
 You filter by using the columns in a list or library,
by surfacing content on a dashboard or using the
Filtering web parts (most of which are in the
Enterprise CAL)

5. Search is Amazing But…
 There is no excuse for bad placement of data
 Security and sites are valuable
 Exclude content that doesn’t need to be searched
 Don’t simply migrate all your old content into SharePoint
 Site Navigation and Good Dashboard Design orient people
 Search is for finding content

6. The Line Up
 $ - SharePoint Foundation
 You get what you pay for
 $ - Search Server Express 2010
 You actually get what you don’t pay for…
 $$ - SharePoint Server (Standard and Enterprise)
 $$$$ - SharePoint Fast Search

7. SharePoint Foundation
You get what you pay for
 You can search within your site collection context
only
 No Refinements
 No Search Centers or search page customizations
 Limited iFilter capabilities (difficult to implement)
 No Scopes, or sources other than SharePoint
Content

8. SharePoint Server (Standard & Enterprise)
 Ability to define scopes, schedules and crawl other content including
websites, File Shares, etc.
 Easily implement iFilters for PDF and other file types
 The Refinement Panel & Best Bets
 Search Reporting (Emails, etc.)

9. Search Server Express 2010
 You actually get what you don’t pay for… (thanks Google!)
 Make Foundation *better*
 Ability to define scopes, schedules and crawl other content
including websites, File Shares, etc.
 Basically, the same search that ships with SharePoint Server –
but it doesn’t scale the same (or much at all)

10. SharePoint Fast Search
• Lots of Content (100+ million items)
• Document Previews for .DOCX and .PPTX

11. 3rd Parties
 Surfray Ontollica Search and Preview

12. The Traditional Home Page
 Content Driven Home Pages are fine but they require:
 Work (to keep them fresh)
 Someone to read them
 Resources (people to populate data, bandwidth to pull new content)

13. The Search Home Page (BAM!)