RSS Gumbo – A Delicious Googly Moss Stew

Call me irascible. When RSS started showing up on this or that, I wasn’t all that thrilled. I was skeptical. Moreover, it reminded of PointCast,” circa 1995. With some shame [looking at my feet and blushing], I admit that I liked PointCast.

I say that with one caveat: PointCast, you see, was designed, inherently, [...]

How to NOT include people in search results:

Sharepoint – how to NOT include people in search results:

I modified the default SearchResults web part so that it displayed the TITLE instead of the filename.  Doing this caused PEOPLE searches to look funny.  Since I didn’t care about searching for people — and in fact wanted to eliminate that from the search [...]

Sharepoint – how to customize search results:

I’ve always been frustrated with SharePoint’s search results.  Why go to all the trouble of using Metadata — especially having a document title that is different from the filename — and then not expose it in search results.  Stupid.

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to change.  Fact is, if there is one failing to [...]