A research/community site with professionally maintained resource lists to help you find what you need about about SharePoint and Enterprise Search.
Here are some direct links to our big resource lists:
Definitions - gain an understanding of all the Enterprise Search buzz words out there.
Resources - this is a prime example of how to make a SharePoint list useful, with faceted navigation and Web 2.0 features. Oh and the content is very helpful also.
Books
User Groups - find a SharePoint user group in your area.
Application Matrix - provides a cross reference from your LOB applications to the vendors that integrate it into sharepoint
Vendors
Products - all the SharePoint Search related add-on products from all the vendors.
and my blog has moved to: Christopher on SharePoint where you will find lots of information about how to customize SharePoint Search including how to write your own protocol handlers.
I also have another blog at: Christopher on Community and Securing SharePoint which provides very useful tips and info about how to create a secure internet facing community site.
lastly if you are struggling to connect your LOB system to SharePoint search or are interested in deploying a community site based on SharePoint see http://sharepointworks.com
