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Microsoft Creates Free Search Server

Microsoft has pulled the search widgetry out of SharePoint Server 2007 and turned it into Search Server 2008 Express
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November 9, 2007 12:00 PM EST
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Microsoft has pulled the search widgetry out of SharePoint Server 2007 and turned it into a standalone Search Server 2008 Express that it will make available as a free download.

It says information workers waste as much as 9.5 hours a week on searches that don't turn up the right information.

So far it's got a release candidate at www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch.

Microsoft expects to bait customers with the upward-compatible Search Server 2008 Express and then scale them up to Search Server 2008 or Office SharePoint Server 2007.

It's also got connectors that index content from EMC Documentum and IBM FileNet that are supposed to be available across its search products early next year and it's added federated search capabilities based on the OpenSearch standard.

It says it's working on new connections based of the standard. It's got EMC, Business Objects, Cognos and Open Text Corporation signed up to work on federated search connectors

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Search News Desk 11/09/07 12:15:13 PM EST

Microsoft has pulled the search widgetry out of SharePoint Server 2007 and turned it into a standalone Search Server 2008 Express that it will make available as a free download. It says information workers waste as much as 9.5 hours a week on searches that don't turn up the right information. So far it's got a release candidate at www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch. Microsoft expects to bait customers with the upward-compatible Search Server 2008 Express and then scale them up to Search Server 2008 or Office SharePoint Server 2007.