Product Differentiation
End user perspective - 300 level table
“Go Beyond the Search Box”
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SharePoint Server 2010
* = same feature in both SKUs, but functions somewhat differently |
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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End User
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Great OOB user experience
including excellent relevance, refiners, and unique social search capabilities |
Most powerful user experience
enhanced through visual, contextual, and conversational capabilities |
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One-stop search center to find answers fast
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· Best-in-class relevance ranking
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Same Capabilities plus:
· Broader, Better language support · Broader query syntax
· Broader language support (84 languages) · Configurable Query Transformations
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Linguistics
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Linguistics · 36 languages detected · Improved ranking of documents in multilingual collections
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Linguistics · 84 languages detected See detail list for Languages Identified
· Improved Recall with Lemmatization · Improved Recall with Lemmatization
· Better Spellchecking o Language specific o OOTB spellchecking dictionary (reasonable spellcheck suggestions even if not much content is available) o Spellchecking customizable via inclusion and exclusion lists
· Phrase search works even with stop words in the phrase
· improved Recall with Lemmatization o document side expansion independent of query language o also works with phrase search o document side reduction (for very complex morphologies) o Only nouns and adjectives are expanded (higher precision) o Spelling variants included for German (spelling reform) and English (BE, AE)
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Query Syntax |
· New query syntax: Boolean, pre-fix wildcard, improved operators · Regular expressions, case sensitive support, content source prioritization
· Modern query syntax: Parenthesis, parametric search, text and metadata terms · Advanced search page |
Same Capabilities, plus: · Full wildcard (text*, *text, te?t, etc.). · Proximity Operators (near, ordered near) · Text/numeric expressions (including numeric comparison and range queries) · Rank operators in query language (XRANK)
FQL (FAST Query Language) See Developer table
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Refinement to explore information quickly
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· Metadata and taxonomy based shallow refiners * · Related Searches · “View in browser” link
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Same Capabilities, plus:
· Deep refiners with counts over entire result set · Similarity search · Sorting on any property
•Refiners based on explicit or implicit (via content processing) metadata · Multi-level sorting · Field collapsing · Extensible duplicate detection
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People and Expertise Search |
Connect with People and Expertise
· “Vanity search” (search for yourself) |
Same Capabilities |
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Search gets better with use
Social behavior drives search quality
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· Social definitions mined from indexed content (automatic definitions)
(People search only)
· “Vanity search” (search for yourself) encourages you to fill out your profile
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