Success with Search

Abstract

This chapter will look at various tools and techniques that the SharePoint information architect can leverage to create an effective search solution. Although the improvement of content findability is touted as an essential outcome of implementing SharePoint, and in some cases is the very reason for SharePoint to be implemented, search is often overlooked in the process of implementation for reasons ranging from being too difficult, to being too easy to simply turn on and get results, or it is left to the end of the project when time is running out.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his searc…. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. —Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), New York Times, October 19, 1931