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.
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.
Metadata-driven Refinement
With the new refinement panel, you can narrow the results of your search and navigate to the right content faster.
Thumbnails and Previews
Thumbnails and previews make the results of a search query visual, allowing you to recognize the right content quickly.
Click Through Relevancy
The click-through behavior of similar search queries affects the rank that documents receive. The more users click on a certain item, the higher its ranking for related queries.
People and Expertise Search
A dedicated ranking system ensures people-specific factors are balanced in the search results. User profile information from My Sites is leveraged to generate result summaries and metadata-based refiners that help locate the right resource quickly.
Phonetic and Nickname Search
The search system indexes names based on their phonetic spelling and also includes common nicknames. This way, searches for “Geoff” will show results for “Jeff,” while searches for “Bill” will also return results for “William.”
Keyword and Colleague Mining
Keyword and Colleague Mining extracts keyword and colleague information from your email messages sent in Outlook. The extracted keywords and colleagues are incorporated into your My Site as suggestions which you can easily add to your profile leading to richer search results.