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Appendix A: Search Terminology
Before delving into the details of enterprise search features provided by FAST Search
Server 2010 for SharePoint, it will be useful for you to ensure that you are familiar with
search terms and definitions. You can use the following table to review brief descriptions
of the terms used later in this guide.
Term
Definition
Best Bet
Best Bets are URLs to documents that are associated with one or more keywords.
Typically these documents or sites are ones that you expect users will want to see at the
top of the search results list. Best Bets are returned by queries that include the
associated keywords, regardless of whether the URL has been indexed. Site collection
administrators can create keywords and associate Best Bets with them.
Connector
Connectors are components that communicate with specific types of system, and are
used by the crawler to connect to and retrieve content to be indexed. Connectors
communicate with the systems being indexed by using appropriate protocols. For
example, the connector used to index shared folders communicates by using the FILE://
protocol, whereas connectors used to index Web sites use the HTTP:// or HTTPS://
protocols.
Content Source
Content sources are definitions of systems that will be crawled and indexed. For
example, administrators can create content sources to represent shared network folders,
SharePoint sites, other Web sites, Exchange public folders, third-party applications,
databases, and so on.
Crawl Rule
Crawl rules specify how crawlers retrieve content to be indexed from content
repositories. For example, a crawl rule might specify that specific file types are to be
excluded from a crawl, or might specify that a specific user account is to be used to
crawl a given range of URLs.
Crawl Schedule
Crawl schedules specify the frequency and dates/times for crawling content repositories.
Administrators create crawl schedules so that they do not have to start all crawl
processes manually.
Crawled Property
Crawled properties represent the metadata for content that is indexed. Typically,
crawled properties include column data for SharePoint list items, document properties
for Microsoft Office or other binary file types, and HTML metadata in Web pages.
Administrators map crawled properties to managed properties in order to provide
useful search experiences. See Managed Property later in this table for more details.