The question of the day comes from Chris:

Do you know of a way users can save searches as links?

Chris – The basic search is a ‘get’ in the URL, so setup the search, click the search button and then copy the URL to use as the href in the link. You can also have them sign up for an Alert when the search criteria exposes another item. Have them do the search and then an Alert button will be available in the search window… this assumes this capability has been activated in your environment.

While we’re on the topic of search, one of the prime uses of metadata columns is to expose documents, items and pages to search. When you set up a library or list, consider how people will be searching for that information and then create columns accordingly.

Not only will this be better for your search criteria, it will also be useful for the Content Query Web Part when trying to expose data in multiple locations.

Regards,
Mark