Chapter 17. Working with Search

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

Basic search
Building search queries
Customizing the search experience
Customizing Search Center
Search Service application configurations
Search analytics

Search is a very common action among users today. When they access a website, they expect to be able to quickly and easily find the relevant content that they are looking for by searching the site. SharePoint is no exception to this concept, and your site users are going to want to be able to reliably and quickly find relevant content. The tools covered in this chapter can be combined to help you build powerful search solutions for your users.

UNDERSTANDING SHAREPOINT SEARCH

SharePoint Search comes in several different flavors, based on the version of the product that you have installed. As you move to a higher level of licensing, additional search features are available. The examples in this chapter are based on the Enterprise version of the product; however, it is good to understand the different types of search available in each of the application platforms. You learned earlier in the book about the three different versions of SharePoint: Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise. The table that follows describes the primary differences in these versions of search. Keep in mind that each version of the product includes all the features available in previous versions.