At TechEd Developers week, one of the questions asked was when can we expect to see the acquisition of FAST search put into Microsoft products. It was indicated that probably first there will be a seperate set of web parts for SharePoint or a seperate installation for FAST ESP. Today we get a glimpse of the web parts by downloading and playing with them from codeplex.
http://www.codeplex.com/espwebparts
Probably not the next version of SharePoint, unless those guys are really good, but the version after FAST will be built into SharePoint and most likely replace the current SharePoint search engine. I still don't think this acquisition is going to boost the Live Search over Google but it's a start.
I would like to see searching within videos and music. Imagine being able to search speech within youtube videos to find information you are interested in. How would someone go about developing that technology and how would that person pick out keywords from the audio? What defines a keyword? Wish I could work on that type of search.... might be worth the time if someone like MS or Google bought it.
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Thanks for the tips. I’m starting a near-shore company so I’ll surely implement your ideas.
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