Peter Seale's weblog

Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:34:40 AM UTC 

Update 2009-09-01

UPDATE: I no longer use the search page; it's in a sorry state of disrepair. The Technet forums search is broken, but wherever they moved it to, the real Technet forums search is still uniquely useful. Google Groups search has dried up as the traffic has moved to Technet. And, for whatever reason, my Google Reader search hasn't been as useful of late.

In any event, I'm going to eventually get rid of this page; if the page is somehow missing or broken, consider that your notice.

Original Introduction

I've updated my hotter-than-hot SharePoint search page, and let me tell you: it's hot!

Here are four reasons my search page is hotter than ever:

1. I've added Google Reader search to the mix! If, like me, you learn most about SharePoint from your blogroll, then it shouldn't surprise you to discover that searching Google Reader will return the absolute best results. Try it for a while and you'll agree! If you don't have a blogroll to search, borrow mine!
2. I've swapped the newsgroups search over to https://groups.google.com/ and instructed it only to search the microsoft.public.sharepoint.* groups. Google Groups search works more consistently (as in uptime) than Microsoft's Communities page search—bottom line, I can't trust the results from the MS Communities search page.
3. In-browser HOTKEYS! Believe it! They even work!
4. My page loads instantly! If you're doing the math, comparing this to any other page is a divide by zero error! NaN! My page is NaN faster!

Mission statement

The SharePoint search page is something I created for my personal use, and which I use daily, to search for SharePoint-related content, whether I'm looking for broad overviews, deep technical solutions, or looking for similar cries for help while troubleshooting.

While most people are satisfied to search Google or Live.com or whatever, I am not. Were it in my power, I would combine Google Search (or Live.com search; it's not bad)—anyway, I would combine whatever search with the complete Technet Forums content and complete Usenet archives; then rank the good weblogs higher; then somehow crawl MSDN's buried whitepapers. And then be done with it. That's my dream.

Until that magical day, however, the SharePoint search page will have to suffice.

Get at it!

http://www.pseale.com/SharePoint/search/