Introducing Microsoft Search Server 2008

Find and act on your information

• Quickly find the information you need, using 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, using duplicate collapsing, which allows 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 both your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results.

Grow and extend your search solution

• Index common information sources using out-of-the-box indexing connectors for file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes databases.

• Use federated search connectors to quickly and easily connect to applications and services, using the Open Search standard.

• Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits, and using advanced indexing features like continuous propagation.

• Take advantage of a strong Partner ecosystem to implement and further extend your search solution.

Help secure and manage your search deployment

• Review common administrative tasks, statuses, and settings in a single view, using a unified administrative dashboard.

• Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other configurable relevancy settings through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.

• Set crawl rules and schedules that govern how and when your information is indexed.

• Maintain high availability and load balancing using a variety of topologies. Configure multiple Web, query, and clustered database servers.

• Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.

• Help ensure that only the right people can find information, using query and index-time security trimming.