SharePoint FAST Search is all about helping users in your organization get to relevant content fast. To facilitate this, SharePoint FAST Search comes with a variety of key features, many of which we will be discussing in detail in this chapter.
We'll start with the search suggestions feature which allows users to select the most common search suggestions while trying to refine their search query. In this chapter, we'll take a look at what's involved in configuring search suggestions and how to pre-populate the list of suggestions for your users when your new search has only just been launched.
Best bets allow users to visually separate regular search results from the results which the search engine considers to be exactly what the user is searching for. For example, your new employees may be looking for a collection of company policies and type respective keywords which search for the type of policy. In this chapter, we'll take a look at how you can configure search to...