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Microsoft Enterprise Search - FAST

Does it handle Sharepoint? ...

FAST ESP vs Google Search Appliance for development

Hi, Which of the two provides a better API for developing on top of? Although there is a virtual Google Search Appliance available for download, no such equivalent is present for FAST. So looking to developers with experience in either of these products to give suggestions and links to documentation. (especially for FAST as there's none...

Robots.txt to disallow everything and allow only specific parts of the site/pages. Is "allow" supported by crawlers like Ultraseek and FAST?

Hi, Just wanted to know if it is possible to disallow the whole site for crawlers and allow only specific webpages or sections? Is "allow" supported by crawlers like FAST and Ultraseek? Kind regards, ...

Enterprise Search: Has anybody developed on FAST ESP? What did you think about it?

I work for a scandinavian yellow pages. The company is looking at moving its bespoke search technology over to FAST ESP. Like all big, expensive systems with relatively few installations, it is difficult to get feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the system. Are there any stackoverflowers who have experience of FAST ESP and wan...

Google Search, FAST ESP and Lucene

Has anybody come across or created a functionality comparison document between the various enterprise search options like Google Search Appliance, Fast ESP, Lucene? Any helpful pointers or links much appreciated. ...

enterprise search engine development asking for advice

Hello everyone, I am asked to either deploy or develop an enterprise (intranet) search engine which could index all web pages of a couple of internal servers, and have a search portal to display all related content, like what Google is doing but for intranet. Any advice how to develop or deploy quickly? I have heard of Microsoft FAST p...

Google search vs FAST ESP - what are the tech differences?

I'm doing a presentation for Sr. Tech Managers and trying to figure out a quick overview of the tech differences of Google and FAST. Yes, I've googled, but nothing concrete (except marketing materials). ...

Fast ESP character normalization

Hi, I'm running a search application on a FAST ESP server. Now I have this problem with character normalization. What I want is to search for 'wurth' and get a hit in 'würth'. i've tried configuring the following in esp/etc/tokenizer/tokenization.xml <normalizationlist name="German to Norwegian"> <normalization description="Germ...

What components in FAST ESP can be versioned for builds and deployment?

I needed to understand what are the FAST ESP components that can be versioned in source control? Are there any best practices to follow for the same so that can be used for regular builds and deployment? ...

Can I redirect a query from default search box in SharePoint to a different search engine.

I dont want the default results that SharePoint returns. I want the query term when entered into SharePoint search box to be redirected to a different search engine? Can I do that. I have seen FAST ESP web parts but could not figure out how they actually transferred the query to FAST search engine. Any help would be really appreciated!...

How does FAST ESP's xrank operator work?

I have a bunch of documents in my index. They all have "text" in field1. One has "boosttext" in field2. I want FAST to put the document with "boosttext" to the front of the result set. I tried this FQL query: and(field1:string("text"), xrank(field2:string("boosttext", mode="AND")) However, this will filter out all documents that do ...

FAST-ESP: How does the Java Boosting API work?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get the Java Boosting API of FAST ESP to work (version 5.1.5), but no success so far. When boosting a search profile with PositionQueryBoost queryBoost = new PositionQueryBoost(id, boostingSearchProfile .getPublishedViewName(), searchTerm, 1); BoostOperation addOperation = BoostOperation.add(quer...

Storing index values in FAST-ESP without modifications

Hi, first of all I'm totally new to FAST but I already have a couple of issues I need to solve, so I'm sorry if my questions are very basic =) Well, the problem is that I have a field in the FAST index which in the source document is something like "ABC 12345" (please note the intentional whitespaces) but when stored in the index is i...

Extracting dates from html meta data in FAST-ESP

During document processing I want to extract all dates from html meta data and then identify the latest date which will be used to populate a date field (dtgeneric1). <meta name="OriginalPublicationDate" content="2010/04/21 12:06:36" /> <meta name="LastModificationDate" content="2010/04/22 14:10:16" /> + other non-date meta data Inspe...

Fast Esp Custom Stage Development

Hi, I am working on Enterprise Search and we are using Fast ESP and for now i have 4 projects but i have no information about stages and python. But i realize that i have learn custom stage development. Because we have a lot of difficulties about document processing. I want to know how can i develop custom stage and especially i wanna kn...