Creative Tip to Avoid Indexing in SharePoint Fast
January 4, 2012
At his Tech and Me blog, Mikael Svenson provides a unique search tip in “How to Prevent an Item from Being Indexed with FAST for SharePoint.” Keeping an item from being indexed in FAST using the meta data or text of a file has long been considered next to impossible. Svenson, however, has found a way, and that way is through profanity. Yes, you can use the Offensive Content Filter to your advantage. The article explains:
The thing about the offensive content filter is that it will prevent documents from being indexed if they contain a certain about of bad language. If you get embarrassed by such words, then skip reading 🙂 “So now we have a stage which can drop items, the rest is to assign enough bad words to ‘ocfcontribution’ to get above the threshold it triggers on.
See the write up for a detailed description of how to implement this creative approach.
Svenson notes one important caveat: if you have any documents containing profanity that you actually want to have indexed, this solution may backfire. Avoid difficulties by tapping the deep search expertise of Search Technologies.
Iain Fletcher, January 4, 2011
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