Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 shared service

This topic provides information about the internal architecture of Enterprise Search, as well as Enterprise Search (ES) as a shared service, ES provides extensive and extensible content gathering, indexing, and querying. This service supports full-text searching using a Structured Query Language (SQL-based) query syntax, and provides a new keyword syntax to support keyword searches. Enterprise Search uses the same underlying Search service as Search in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (read also all this infos on this subjectby Joel's blog) .
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