SharePoint search incorporates features designed to help users access relevant information across the organisation. It also offers the facility to search and retrieve people or contacts that exist within the enterprise. Companies can leverage these capabilities to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
 

As documents are stored in a variety of locations such as document libraries and lists, browsing for the documents that a user requires can be time consuming. Search not only retrieves relevant documents held within these locations but can also be trimmed to search only in specific locations such as team sites and MySites.

With SharePoint you can search:

• File shares
• Web sites
• SharePoint sites
• Exchange Public Folders
• Lotus Notes
• 3rd Party sources