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September 12, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn’t fail at random—its limits are predictable. This article explains how Copilot really searches and how you can avoid blind spots.
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August 22, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Microsoft 365 Copilot relies on more than just ChatGPT. Behind the scenes, multiple large language models handle semantic indexing, re-ranking, and text generation to deliver search results. Understanding these hidden LLMs explains why Copilot’s answers are powerful, but also why they differ from classic SharePoint search.
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August 20, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Copilot isn’t a true replacement for SharePoint Search. Learn where Copilot helps, where it fails, and why SharePoint Search remains essential.
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August 13, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Compare M365 Copilot and PointFire Search Summarizer for SharePoint. See why PointFire Search Summarizer delivers faster, more accurate, query-focused results.
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April 28, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Say that you would like to have a link in your SharePoint page, for instance in the navigation, that goes to a different place depending on the user’s language. How do you do it? This article is a comprehensive how-to to get this done.
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March 14, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
AI and modern solutions have already and will soon transform SharePoint search tools. We explore what the future holds for this evolving technology.
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February 19, 2025
By:
Martin Laplante
Struggling with SharePoint search? Employees waste up to 30% of their work time searching for information, leading to frustration and lost productivity. Traditional search enhancements help, but they don’t fix the biggest issue—sifting through results. Discover how PointFire Search Summarizer streamlines the process with AI-powered summaries, saving time and effort.
read moreDecember 27, 2024
By:
Martin Laplante
This is a detailed guide on how to enable multilingual features in SharePoint. It details all the things you need to do in 5 areas: Alternate languages, Multilingual Page Publishing, term sets, content types and user profiles.
read moreDecember 27, 2024
By:
Martin Laplante
PointFire people talk about the difference between translation and localization quite a bit because there are two sets of products: (1) PointFire Translator which does translation of content and (2) PointFire 365 which does localization of the user interface. But what does that mean, really? When you look at a SharePoint screen, what fits into the category of translation and what fits into the category of localization?
read moreDecember 20, 2024
By:
Martin Laplante
This how-to guide details the steps to change users Microsoft 365 profile language without Delve
read moreDecember 11, 2024
By:
Martin Laplante
Wouldn't it be great if there was to make SharePoint searched more efficient? Discover the search summarizer, a tool that gives you AI summaries of every one of your search results. The summaries tell you what each document says about your search query. This product is an extension of the open source PnP search project.
read moreOctober 17, 2024
By:
Martin Laplante