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A lot of users are disappointed with the search function that is in MOSS 2007. Some of them are looking for other alternatives, or just leaving SharePoint because of this. 

First, I still believe that you can get a decent user experience with the out of the box search engine. It is just not something you can turn on and forget about it. Best bets, customisation of the search results, authoritative pages, scopes… just don’t come there by themselves, you need to create, maintain and promote them. 

But for those who are still looking for a more enhanced search, there is some light in the darkness: Microsoft announced yesterday that the FAST search engine WILL be included in the next version of SharePoint, and offers an solution for customers who need the enhanced search today. Read the press release.

Adobe has released their 64-bit version of the iFilter, that allows SharePoint Search to index the content of pdf-files.

You can download it here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

If you have been waiting for the nice search enhancements from Search Server Express 2008 to appear in MOSS, it seems that waiting is almost over: according to Arpan Shah’s blog, the features should be available for MOSS in a “rollup hotfix” early July.

I was always having trouble getting the “Did you mean” function of the MOSS 2007 search to work. This is why: it only works if the language preference of your browser (Tools, Internet Options, Languages) is set to one of the supported languages (e.g. english US).