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SharePoint 2010 Search: Relevance, Refinement, and People

SharePoint 2010 Search helps your people find the information they need to get their jobs done. It provides intranet search, people search, and a platform to build search-driven applications—all on a single, cost-effective infrastructure. But what’s so unique about SharePoint 2010 Search is its combination of relevance, refinement, and people. This new approach to search provides an experience that is highly personalized, efficient, and effective.

Benefits

Find Content Faster

If your company is like most others, it has a lot of information in a lot of different formats. To help cut through the clutter, SharePoint 2010 Search provides an interactive, visual search experience. Visual cues help people find information quickly, while refiners let them drill into the results and discover insights.

Help People Connect

People are your company’s key asset. The more quickly and easily they can find each other, the more they can share ideas and expertise to solve problems, improve processes, and foster innovation. Learn more about people search in SharePoint Server 2010.

Customize the Search Experience

Your people use search in many different ways. With SharePoint 2010 Search, you can meet everyone’s search needs on a single platform. You can add your own vocabulary, tune relevance, and use each person’s specific information to deliver a great search experience.

Products

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivers powerful intranet and people search, right out of the box. What sets the search in SharePoint Server 2010 apart? A unique combination of relevance, refinement, and people provides a highly personalized and effective search experience.

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint offers a new choice in enterprise search. Combining the power of FAST with the simplicity of SharePoint, FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint delivers an exceptional intranet and people search experience and a platform for building custom search-driven applications.

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Top Features

Metadata-Driven Navigation

With the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010, you can narrow the results of your search and navigate to the right content faster. Learn more

People and Expertise Search

SharePoint 2010 Search helps you capture knowledge not found in documents by locating the right people and expertise for any business need. Learn more

Resources

Video: Increasing user productivity with SharePoint 2010 Search

SharePoint 2010 Search Datasheet