Hi gang,
Is it possible to add a tab to the search box (currently it has "All Sites" and "People") which performs a web search using, say, Live Search or Google? Is this documented anywhere?
Cheers,
Matt
yes, see Plan the End user search experience at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/b28ba53d-a3e8-440f-9fcb-f592d858894a1033.mspx?mfr=true
HTH
Dean
So it looks like the tabs must redirect to an aspx page you've defined with MOSS, containing a custom "search results" WebPart - rather then simply redirecting to a URL like google.com?q=<search term>.
In other words, it looks like it's possible, but non-trivial. A bit disappointing, but not the end of the world.
mabster,
I would like to clarify the following
1. All tabs need not always redirect to an aspx within MOSS. You can index contents of various content-sources like intranet sites, file shares, databases (like SQL, Oracle, DB2), documentum, internet sites, exchange, clarity etc. Each tab can point to the content source you want. So that you can bring more refined search experience
2. You could still do simple redirection to URL like google.com?q=<search term>. But you cannot bring the Google search experience within your sharepoint boundary(i mean indexing contents of google/windows live search). It's bit tedious.
Sundar Narasimman wrote:
2. You could still do simple redirection to URL like google.com?q=<search term>. But you cannot bring the Google search experience within your sharepoint boundary(i mean indexing contents of google/windows live search). It's bit tedious.
Simply redirecting to Google's search results would be just fine, Sundar. Is how to do this documented anywhere?
