When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint works with delegates with searchboxes, all...
MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 are using the same search engine. It only differs in the options that are available to each of the products. As expected, MOSS 2007 has a lot more functionality then WSS 3.0. Where WSS 3.0 is only able to use contextual search (as in: this site, this list), MOSS 2007 can be configurated...
Today I was breaking my head on some stupid problem within SharePoint Search. We created a site with about 50 dummy pages to test some cross webapp news aggregation webpart that I created. For some reason just 4(!) news items were found, each one existing in another subweb. In the SSP the View Scopes...
Boris Veldhuijzen-Van Zanten wrote a great blogpost in which he requested his readers to come up with the best SEO-tips. He collected all remarks and created a list with them, which he then converted into a nice WordPress plugin. For all readers who do not use WordPress, I thought it would come in handy...
One of those things that can get really annoying after a few times, is clicking one of the searchresults in your favorite search-engine, which will navigate you to a site that then shows you that you need to signup . It happens to me everytime with Experts-Exhange.com. They manage to get their pages...
There are a lot of sites describing how you could improve your Google Pagerank. They usually don't add any real new information besides "Make sure you are being linked to", "Use proper META-tags", "Make sure all interesting keywords are used in your TITLE-tags and in the BODY of your documents". But...