Configuring the Preferred Search Center for Personal Sites
A personal site is its own site collection and does not warrant its own Search Center, as other site collections sometimes do. For personal sites, it is more desirable to create a Search Center that is shared across all personal sites. This could be the same Search Center as the one created for the typical intranet portal. It could also be a dedicated Search Center created on the same Web application hosting the personal sites. You will in any case need to tell SharePoint where the Search Center is. The small Search box on personal sites needs this piece of information to determine which URL to redirect the user query to. See Chapter 2, for more information about creating a new Search ...
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