Posts Tagged ‘search’

Facebook’s new Graph Search is a very interesting tool that can be used to dive into the Facebook data that is publicly available. It can also make it ridiculously easy to dig up embarrassing facts you’ve forgotten you’ve even said about yourself. So how will you use this new tool? Will you use it to connect with new people […]

I encourage everyone to take a quick three minutes to review this quite humorous mashup video by Sam Applegate of http://www.ninja-creative.com.  Matt Cutts is the head of webspam at Google.  He’s basically Google personified when it comes to why a website ranks (or fails to rank) in search results pages.  In his own words on […]

For the past decade, it seems as if technology advances each and every day. Today, technology makes it possible to communicate with businesses and individuals around the globe from almost anywhere. What once required a hard-wired Internet connection and a bulky computer can now be achieved with a portable mobile device. Of course, coping with […]

The SharePoint Conference kicks off on Sunday November 11th and the Perficient team will be there in force. From demo’s showing what can be accomplished with SharePoint 2013, our Rockstar giveaway where someone will win a Home Theater System to interactive sessions with community members, booth 904 will be a hub of activity. From the […]

I started working with SharePoint 2013 RTM today on a Windows 2012 Server. My initial project is to do with search so I quickly created a Search Service Application and performed the minimal configuration to begin crawling the ‘Local SharePoint sites’ content source. Everything looked good so I started a crawl on this source. I quickly realized that […]

Working with clients I am always keen to bring the conversation about search forward in our discussion of a solution. Search is not something we ‘plug in’ or ‘turn on’ in the later stages of a SharePoint project. Search needs to be considered from the outset and built into the architecture if we are to […]

If you have ever worked with customizing search results in SharePoint you will be familiar with the need to write XSLT. I was always somewhat of a reluctant XSLT developer, I was able to achieve some interesting customizations but they did not come without some pain and the feeling that there must be a better […]

Microsoft has really targeted the user experience in 2013 Search and there are a whole host of improvements which will I think impress our users. They include: We can now see search results as we type into the search box. We have some very nice visual refinement available like the new Date Slider. Creating date […]

I was a little disappointed with some aspects of how FAST was bolted on to SharePoint 2010. We had a fantastic new search engine but its capabilities were throttled by the depth of integration with SharePoint. One aspect of this was access to the power of the FAST Query Language (FQL). FQL is a rich […]

We have now had a few months to try out SharePoint 2013 Preview and things are looking really exciting for Search. In this 5-part series of blog posts I will review the upgrade in technology, highlight some new features which I think are important and show how they relate to real-world scenarios. In SharePoint 2010 […]

On Wednesday, we brought our Microsoft practice and our XD team together for a webinar, “Create Great Search Experiences with SharePoint 2013.” Brian Flanagan, Director of Experience Design at Perficient, quickly dove into the user experience of search, and why it’s imperative to have a good search experience, both on your organization’s intranet and on your […]

In the first post of this three part series, I shared my colleague Matt Morse’s recent presentation on SharePoint 2013 and discussed Microsoft’s investment in the new release. Following this, my second post summarized Perficient’s experience with SharePoint 2013. In this post, I’ll recap Matt’s third and final question, “What’s new in SharePoint 2013?” Many who are […]