Some key points…
- Apparently the search algorithm uses Click Distance, Anchor Text, URL Depth and an Metadata to index data. Results are grouped by social distance
- The search is capable of suggesting similar terms.
- Duplicate elimination.
- Can search with WSS 3.0 – previously WSS2 could only use SQL Server Search
- Can index any ldap v3 directory
- A crawl log is kept
- You can apparently tweak certain aspects of the search algorithm (by changing weighting??)
- Results are security trimmed whatever PAM (Pluggable Auth Module) is used
- You are able to remove single items from the search index (without having to re-index)
- The search can index non-SharePoint sources – e.g. from the business data catalogue
- You can set which properties are picked up by the search index crawl
- Search SDK – apparently this will be available within the Beta 2 timeframe
- You can change the way results are presented by tweaking the XSLT and CSS
- The search crawl can propagate continuously
