Using SharePoint Portal Server to Index Your Custom Application
Although you can plumb the depths of SharePoint's search engine, creating custom protocol handlers and IFILTERs to handle your site's custom search needs, for most sites, you can follow a much simpler process to provide customized searches.
by Robert Bogue
April 29, 2005
harePoint Portal Server's search engine is one of its most powerful features, able to search file shares, Exchange public folders, Notes databases, and Web sites; however, the results you get when you index a Web site may be a bit overwhelming. In this article, you'll see how SharePoint's search feature operates and how you can leverage its behavior to index your custom application properly.
How SharePoint Search Works
SharePoint search works using a gatherer process that crawls a configurable set of content. While SharePoint crawls sites, it performs two simultaneous processes. First, it collects all the words in the content being indexed, and second, identifies other content (via links) that it should also crawl. These two processes work together to create an index that contains every word from every piece of linked content.
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harePoint Portal Server's search engine is one of its most powerful features, able to search file shares, Exchange public folders, Notes databases, and Web sites; however, the results you get when you index a Web site may be a bit overwhelming. In this article, you'll see how SharePoint's search feature operates and how you can leverage its behavior to index your custom application properly.
