By: Rem Purushothaman
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January 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM Everyone is aware of the key role search plays in a product or retail scenario. Websites like Amazon and Best Buy would be practically unusable without a way to easily search for products you are looking to research or purchase. Did you know that search can also play the same critical role in a corporate environment? Corporate networks today hold petabytes of information scattered across file shares, databases, SharePoint lists, individual employee computers and mobile devices. This information
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By: Rem Purushothaman
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August 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM
ESP comes with standard synonym dictionaries for several languages which can be used to provide synonym support during search. However, these dictionaries, while being pretty extensive are fairly generic and only contain the terms that are common for a specific language. Often, there is a need to support synonyms that are specific to a subject domain like medicine, real estate or construction, you will need to handle custom synonyms during search. ESP handles synonymy through something called
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By: Rem Purushothaman
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March 30, 2011 at 11:10 PMFAST provides hit highlighting for query terms (search terms) out of the box for any field decorated with the result=dynamic attribute. The highlighted terms are included in the dynamic document summary (teaser) in the results. That's great for simple search uses cases but that is not enough when there are requirements for highlighting beyond the original query terms. I worked on an application with a requirement to highlight not only the matched query terms in the results but also the synonyms
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By: Rem Purushothaman
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March 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM
This post is related to running the File Traverser on a Windows Server. If you are running the File Traverser on a Unix server, follow the directions in the FAST ESP File Traverser Guide.
With the introduction of CTS in FSIS, the File Traverser is no longer the only option to feed file (XML, text, etc…) content to ESP. However, there are plenty of scenarios where the File Traverser is a quick and easy option especially when it comes to testing or feeding files that don't need to be transforme
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By: Rem Purushothaman
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December 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM
Overview
If you've ever updated or changed the index profile in ESP, you are very familiar with the Matching Engines page in the ESP Admin GUI which allows you to upload a new index profile.
Uploading a new index profile using this page is very easy but this method of uploading an index profile is not very practical in everyday scenarios. If your index profile has very minor changes which do not conflict with the current index profile configuration, then this is a quick and easy way
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