1. What’s New in
SharePoint 2013 Search
Agnes Molnar
Senior Search Solutions Consultant,
SharePoint Server MVP

2. Introduction
• Senior Search Solutions Consultant
• SharePoint Server MVP
• Speaker, Blogger, Community Lead
http://aghy.hu
http://www.DoMoreWithSearch.com
Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com
@molnaragnes

3. There are major changes in
Search!
Combination Used
of FAST and pervasively
SharePoint Content by throughout Continuous
Search Search WCM the platform Result Sources Crawling
High Query Search
Scalability CSOM Result Blocks Suggestions Query Rules Refinements
Search is used pervasively throughout the platform
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4. Demo
New Search User Interface

5. Search Refinement
Search Refinement
• Customizable
• Now more graphical
Faceted Navigation
• Hierarchical
• Managed from with the Term Store
• Customizable
Query Processing

6. Demo
Search Refinement

7. One Engine –
Combination of FAST and SharePoint Search
• Keeps many of the best capabilities from FAST
• Completely new search core
• Highly Scalable
• Single Query Language
Architecture

8. Delegated Search Administration
Task Site Site Admin
Collection
Admin
Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results
Create and/or override Result types and display templates
Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations
or as a custom search “vertical”
Create managed properties
Create refiners
Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level
Built for the Cloud
• Multi-Tenant
Architecture 8

9. Demo
Delegated Search Administration

10. Search is Pervasive in SharePoint
2013
• Content By Search Web Part
• My Tasks
• My Site View
• “What’s new” feed
• E-Discovery Console
• Topic Pages
• Recommendations
• Customer Engagement Portal
• Image Library search
• Exchange 15 search
• Web Content Management
Pervasive

11. Demo
Content Search Web Part

12. Result Sources
Scopes and Federated Search in SharePoint 2010 are now known
as “Result Sources” in SharePoint 2013
• Local SharePoint Index
• This farm
• Remote SharePoint
• Another farm
• oAuth Trust
• Open Search
• Upgraded support for 1.1
• Exchange
• Same Search
• Anonymous Authentication is
finally supported
Gotcha! - You can’t interleave results from sources
Crawl & Content Processing 12

13. Continuous Crawling
• Because of changes in how the
index is created and stored, a
document can appear in the index
within seconds of going through
content processing
• Crawl continuously every 15
minutes (by Default)
• Can change the default using
PowerShell
(Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource )
• Can run at the same time as Full
and Incremental Crawls
• Ignore Errors and just logs them!
Gotcha! - Only works on SharePoint Content
Crawl & Content Processing 13

14. Content Freshness

15. Content Freshness

16. Query Rules
Query Conditions
(does it meet a condition?)
• Contains Words
• Source
• Type
• Source
• RegEX
Query Actions
(What action to perform)
• Promoted Results
• Best Bets
• Visual Best Bets
• Result Blocks
• Additional Query
• Query Modification
• XRANK
• Query Re-Write
Query Publishing
(When to perform this action)
• Start Date
• End Date
Query Processing 16

17. Search Query Builder
New Tool to help you build complex queries
• Used Pervasively
• Query Rules
• Result Blocks
• And More…
• Visually build complex queries
• Allows for testing queries
• Refiners
• Sorting
Query Processing 17

18. Demo
Query Builder

19. Result Blocks
Promoted Result
(Visual Best Bet)
Promoted Result
(Best Bet)
Office 365 Results Block
Search Core Results
Query Processing 19

20. Query Suggestions
Pre-Query Suggestions
A list of items that others are
typing for their queries
A list of items you have clicked on
before from your personal query log
Post-Query Suggestions
Based upon the results that you have
clicked on at least twice
Query Processing 20

21. Web Content Management
 Metadata navigation
 Topic Pages
 Clean URLs
 Content by Search
 Refinements
 Recommendations
(item-to-
item, popularity)
Analytics Mined Search
Events
WCM Engine 21 Recommendations Engine

22. Simplified Navigation
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/computers
CONTENT SEARCH WEB PART
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION TAXONOMY
Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
Use page
maincategory.aspx
WCM 22

23. Content by Search Web Part
• New presentation
template model for easy
content presentation fine
tuning
• Content rendered in
client side
• Provides full control
on rendering
capabilities using
html templates
• Easy editors as web part
editors for defining
planned query
WCM 23

24. Key Takeaways
• One new Search Core
• Search is Pervasive is SharePoint 2013
• SharePoint 2013 provides more control over search
• Built with the Cloud in mind
• multi-tenant scenarios
• SharePoint is now a viable WCM platform
outside the firewall
• SharePoint Search Development is getting easier
• XSLT
• HTML & JavaScript 24

25. Want to Know More About SharePoint 2013
Search?
The Essential Guide
to Enterprise Search
in SharePoint 2013
Everything You Need to Know to
Get the Most Out of Search and
Search-based Applications
Download from
www.SharePointSearch2013.com
This book contains 20 chapters, and more than 100 pages packed full of valuable
insights. Also includes helpful call outs and screenshots.
Working with Architecture, Applications
User Working with
Queries and Deployment &
Experience Content
Results & Operations Development

26. Questions?
Email: Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com
Twitter: @molnaragnes
Blog: http://aghy.hu
http://DoMoreWithSearch.com