Microsoft releases Federated Search Connector Gallery last day. They initialize it with appropriate list of search connectors. Microsoft Enterprise is used to enterprise search connectors. A user having Windows 7 can interact with them to put the search connector into Windows Explorer for single stop search.
What is Search Connector of Microsoft?
Federated search connectors enable the Microsoft enterprise search solution to pass a query to a target system and display results returned from that system. Federated search connectors work for all Microsoft enterprise search products. These Search Connectors allow a search solution based on any Microsoft Enterprise Search product (Microsoft Search Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).
Microsoft released the following list of search connectors on website:
- Google Blog
- Google News
- The Register
- TechNet
- Yahoo
- Yahoo News
- Yahoo Images
- Wikipedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Flickr
- MSDN
- Business Week
- Bing
- Bing News
- Bing Local Search
- Bing Image Search
- YouTube
