Here is a link to the presentation that I delivered at the Sydney Office Dev Con. The session was about the SharePoint Search engine and how you can make use of it outside of SharePoint.
Here are the resources that I mention at the end of the presentation
- Sydney SharePoint User Group (link)
- MOSS SDK and Technical Articles (link)
- Mike Taghizadeh's Blog(link)
- Mick Badran’s Query Ranking command (link)
- Evaluation guide for Search in MOSS 2007 (link)
- Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (link)
- Wildcard search from Ontolica (link)
- CodePlex – MOSS 2007 Search Manager (link)
- CodePlex – Test WSS and MOSS Search Web Service (link)