Google always has a regular habit of making new changes or updates to the outlook of its web layout and result pages. Usually Google will experiment the new updates or changes in beta stage only in certain selective data centers. Now recently local search results have joined that beta testing list, with some creative and innovative modifications to its outlook. Google’s willingness to experiment the local search results was first confirmed by Mike Blumenthal, a local search expert who shared some screenshots of Google displaying different layout for the local search results in his blog Google Testing New, More Integrated Local Search SERPs
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In web designing, rounded corners play a vital role in various places. They not just look good but also allow one to create unique effects. There are many methods to achieve this effect. And, we have come up with a very simple, clean and reusable technique to create multi-sized rounded corner CSS boxes using a single image with drop shadow effects. In this short tutorial, we’ll explain you on how to achieve this effect with a simple example.

Before we proceed with this example, what we need is a basic knowledge in CSS and a solid colored background image with rounded corners. You can choose whatever color theme you want for the boxes and a drop shadow effect can be added to the image as given in this example.
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In previous blog posts, we discussed on the new features such as dynamic development and pervasive insight in SQL Server 2008. In this post, we shall discuss on a fantastic feature – Reporting services in SQL Server 2008.

As all of us are aware of the importance of reports at various levels and this feature in SQL Server 2008 is no exception. This feature helps in achieving and analyzing our targets based on the records available. Reporting services are embedded with SQL Server and we have interface to design reports flexibly and produce them on time.

Reporting Services:

This is very simple and all you need to do is take the following steps:

1. First, check the configuration of the reporting service.
2. Secondly, design Reports
3. Thirdly, deploy Reports
4. At last, view Reports in a click

While installing Reporting Services (SQL SERVER), we need to choose the default configuration which can automate the entire configuration process for reporting services. But sometime, we may need to add or change Reporting Services configuration options. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

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We hope that it is clear to all of us from our previous blog that the main purpose of enterprise search of SharePoint Server is to provide enhanced searching capabilities by gathering, querying, and indexing with support for SQL query syntax. We also enlisted the features available in SharePoint Enterprise Search with just a mention about its architectural components. We are back again to let you know the functionalities of each of its architectural components.

The below picture provides us the detailed view of the architecture.

From the diagram it is clear that the SharePoint Enterprise Search Engine in itself has got several components and each one has its own responsibilities during searching process. We will entail them one by one here:

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We would like to dedicate this blog article to searching capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint and we will however briefly overview the searching feature with its architectural pattern reviewed in the forthcoming blog for its elaborateness.

The traditional approach of searching through massive storage of documents in any organization became futile wherein we would navigate through hierarchical arrangement of folders and it is difficult for us to search and locate a particular document. Thus, there arises the need for implementing an effective searching solution for an organization that would make ease the task of searching through documents by employees particularly business analyst. This implementation comes handy with Microsoft SharePoint Server that actually provides an uniform experience with improved search result and enhanced performance. The SharePoint Server uses indexing mechanism while storing the contents and this is the main reason for its desirable outcome in both performance wise and result wise.
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