SharePoint 2013 - Search

Jun 04, 2014

Find out about the many other benefits of SharePoint 2013 and what they can do for your organization!

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Combination of FAST and SharePoint Search: all FAST Search Server and SharePoint features are now combined and available in SharePoint 2013
Installed by default: no more separate FAST Search Server installation required, search is now a built-in service application
Used pervasively throughout the platform: search is used in different features, content roll up, analytics, content query…etc.
High Scalability: implicitly SharePoint 2013 search inherits the high scalability model of FAST Search Server
Continuous Crawling: this is a new interesting feature where the farm administrator can enable continuous crawling for content so once you add a new document it can appear in the search results in matter of minutes, it will not even wait for indexing to finish to appear in the search results
Site administrators can manage result sources:content sources are now called result sources. Result sources can be defined by a site administrator, not like the old days in which it was configured only through the service application
Entity Extraction: a FAST search core feature; you can manage entity extraction through managed metadata settings in the term store, so you add new entities as a new term
Schema management: schema is the columns you want to expose managed properties in the search and can be managed by the site administrators
Custom Ranking Model: in SharePoint 2013 you can define custom ranking model for your search results through Powershell commands
Query Suggestions: SharePoint 2013 suggests queries for the user based on the links the user has clicked before and based on other user search queries
Query Rules: you can define rules for each query based on keywords or who is searching and based on this you can start different queries or change the original query
Search Refinements: you can easily define search refinements through managed data through marking the term as available for refinement