Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog on SharePoint Search

October 25, 2009

Short honk: Zip. That’s right. The SharePoint sold out shin dig is history. I expected to read on the Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog a run down of what was announced. The last post I saw had the date September 22, 2009. I navigated to the FastForward Web log which also covers Fast search from the perspective of Enterprise 2.0. As you may know, I don’t know what the heck Enterprise 2.0 is. I do know that Enterprise 1.0 has not been performing all that well in the last 18 months. The most recent post on the FastForward blog was on October 16, 2009. No word about SharePoint search or how Fast addresses some of the challenges organizations encounter when trying to access information in a SharePoint environment.

My mind generated several questions:

Why isn’t there some information about SharePoint search and the Fast technology? (I posted some information in this Web log but I had to do some Easter egg hunting. I could not find much substantive news.)
When will more information about Fast ESP and SharePoint become available?
What will the “forking” of Fast ESP mean for legacy Fast Search & Transfer customers?

No news is good news I suppose. The addled goose thinks that Microsoft is discovering some interesting things about the Fast ESP technology. Microsoft acquired Fast Search & Transfer in the spring of 2009. Leaves are beginning to float on the surface of the mine run off pond here in Harrod’s Creek. The Fast brand seems to be drifting to the back of the pack. I read more about Xbox and Zune than Fast ESP. Expensive buy and low profile: I cannot reconcile these two data points.

At the same time, SharePoint gets more features and functions. XQuery! Okay. What about information access and findability for the average user? I don’t have an answer but those SharePoint conference keynote videos have not provided me with the information I need.

Stephen Arnold, October 25, 2009

Yep, another freebie.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, Financial, News, Search

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2 Responses to “Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog on SharePoint Search”

tzahij on October 25th, 2009 6:53 am

spring 2008, not 2009
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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.