Search Considerations for Public Sites

Because the Publishing Portal template is frequently used for the public face of organizations, there may be special search considerations involved when creating this template. In small-to-medium environments, the Internet site may be part of the same farm as the intranet or extranet sites. If you have only a single SSP, the one index will contain information about internal sites as well as your Internet site. Despite the security trimming provided by search, if a user does not secure documents correctly, internal documents could be displayed in Internet search results. Even though the Internet user would not have access to the documents, the name, title, and author of the document could expose confidential ...

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