Manage crawling with the FAST Search Web crawler

Published: May 12, 2010

The FAST Search Web crawler is a specialized indexing connector. The connector gathers content from Web content sources.

Before you start crawling with the FAST Search Web crawler, consult the topics Plan to deploy FAST Search specific connectors (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint), Configure the FAST Search Web crawler, Determine what Web content to crawl, and Determine crawl schedules.

In this section:

• Add, edit or remove a FAST Web crawler configuration

• Manage crawl rules (FAST Search Web crawler)

• Start, suspend, resume, or stop a crawl process (FAST Search Web crawler)

• Customizing the Browser Engine

• Manage mapping crawled to managed properties (FAST Search Web crawler)