Search Center & Search Control Related Topics

http://sharepointlogics.com/2009/02/creating-scope-and-tab-for-moss-search.html

http://waelmohamed.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/add-custom-search-properties-in-your-advanced-search-sharepoint-2010/

http://dhondiyals.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/steps-to-search-a-specific-custom-list/

http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/configuring-enterprise-search-sharepoint-2010/

http://sharepointsearch.com/cs/blogs/sanjaya/archive/2009/06/12/create-and-configure-a-scope-to-return-only-documents-in-search.aspx

Signing PowerShell Scripts

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SigningPowerShellScripts.aspx

Sharepoint 2010 Backup and Restore Site collection

SharePoint 2010 Search - Server Name Mapping

SharePoint 2010 - MySites

Working with the User Profile DataSource Parameter

Sharepoint 2010 - Search Scope config

Sharepoint 2010 - Search Shared Folders/Files

Sharepoint 2010 - Search Concepts

Sharepoint 2010 - Search

The following are some of the basic Search features in SharePoint 2010

Cast a wider net through the use of built-in wildcard search functionality (wildcard searches were not possible previously)

Narrow down the list of search results a lot faster with the metadata-driven refinement panel (based on managed properties, like author, file type, create data, and update date)

Add your own metadata property mappings and make them part of search result refinement options

Enjoy an easier to use and more powerful query syntax - use AND, NOT and OR in your search queries

Scale your search and index up to 10 million items with sub-second response times (3 million was the limit previously)

Receive helpful "Did you mean?" suggestions for misspelled queries