Enterprise and desktop search

With the growing amount of information on users' desktops and increasing scale and complexity of intranets, Enterprise and Desktop Search are becoming two increasingly important Information Retrieval applications. While the challenges arising there are not completely different from those that the web community has faced for years, advanced web search solutions are often unable to address them properly. In this tutorial we give a research prospective on distinctive features of both Enterprise and Desktop Search, explain typical search scenarios, and review existing ranking techniques and algorithms.