SharePoint User Group Chicago: 1/24/2013 SharePoint 2013 Search Overview

Agenda – What’s New? 2  UI Improvements  Result Types, New Refiners, Fresh Look  Display Templates  Content by Search WebPart  Relevance Improvements  Query Logs  Query Rules  Result Sources  Changes in Crawling  Continuous Crawl  Content Enrichment  Why Upgrade?

User Interface Improvements 3 Bar/Slider Refiner Web Page Result Type PowerPoint Result Type Hover Panel

Result Sources 4  What happened to Scopes?  Deprecated in 2013  Cannot add Result Sources or Scopes to the DropDown  Federated Search and/or Scopes = Result Sources  Restrict results to a subset of content

Display Templates  Goodbye to XSLT, hello HTML and JavaScript  Managed Properties  External and Inline JavaScript  HTML  Can be used as the entire look and feel, or used with Result Types to create a dynamic search experience.

Demo 1 Creating a Twitter Result Source Office Web Apps 2013 Result Types Display Templates

Query Rules 7 Search Keywords/Best Bets (SP2010) “when the query is ‘holiday schedule’, promote a specific link” Search Keywords/Best Bets (SP2010) “when the query is ‘holiday schedule’, promote a specific link” Query Rules (SP2013) “when the user is looking for ‘holiday schedule’, show users useful results” Query Rules (SP2013) “when the user is looking for ‘holiday schedule’, show users useful results” VSVS VSVS VS

Query Builder  Manipulate the default search query  Content by Search Web Part  Result Sources  Result Types  Search Core Results Web Part  Uses KQL (Keyword Query Language) 8

Content By Search Web Part (CSWP) 9  Customize a query to display search results  Use Display Templates change the look and feel  Crawl frequently for content freshness  Vs. Content Query Web Part (CQWP)

Demo 2 Query Rules Query Builder Content By Search Web Part

Continuous Crawling Changes in Crawling Keeping it fresh Crawler runs every 15 minutes Keeping it fresh Crawler runs every 15 minutes Adaptable Craws adapt as necessary to the change rate of SharePoint content Adaptable Craws adapt as necessary to the change rate of SharePoint content No Index merge Items appear in results after they have been crawled No Index merge Items appear in results after they have been crawled Only works with SharePoint sites as content sources Continuous Incremental 11

Content Enrichment  Comes default out of the box in 2013 – required FAST for SharePoint in SP2010  Replaces FAST item processing pipeline  Puts code in a web service, rather than a sandbox  Processes and returns managed properties  Create new managed properties -> refiners by extracting data from unstructured text 12

Query Logs and Usage Reports 13  Usage Reports  Number of Queries  Search Reports  Top Queries (Day and Month)  Abandoned Queries (Day and Month)  No Result Queries (Day and Month)  Query Rule Usage (Day and Month)  Excel Spreadsheet Format

Why Upgrade? What happened to FAST for SharePoint? – SharePoint 2013 bundled search experience – UI Improvements – Expanded Features 14

Questions?

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