Manage settings to improve search results (Office SharePoint Server)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2009-07-16

You can use various features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help users get better search results, such as properties assigned to context, stored during indexing, and mapped to managed properties made available for searches; keywords defined by the search services administrator, with their definitions and synonyms; and Best Bets sites.

This topic links to articles that provide information about how an administrator can configure these features and about where and how search queries employ these features.

In this section:

• Define scopes for searches (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage shared scopes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Configure Web Part properties (SharePoint Server 2007)

• How word breakers, stemmers, and noise word files affect search results (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Configure authoritative pages (Office SharePoint Server)

• Add keyword terms with Best Bets (Office SharePoint Server)

• Using wildcard characters in property searches (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Manage server name mappings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage metadata property mappings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Edit a noise word file (Office SharePoint Server)

• Edit a thesaurus file (Office SharePoint Server)

See Also

Concepts

Helping users make successful queries (Office SharePoint Server)