The 4 Essential Concepts You Need to Know To Use Any Search Engine Efficiently
When you go to your insert-search-application-name-here enter a query and hit the search button, what exactly are you searching on? One of the hardest things to do in IT (or in any field, really) is to...
View ArticleThe Myths and Perils in the Pursuit of Advanced Search Options
One question that I’ve heard a lot over the years working in the search space is: “How can I provide advanced search options for users, such as exposing boolean operators?” My answer: don’t waste your...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 Search Ranking and Relevancy Part 1: Let’s compare to FS14
I’m very happy to do some “guest” blogging for my good friend Leo and continue diving into various search-related topics. In this and upcoming posts, I’d like to jump right into something that...
View ArticleSearch Architecture with SharePoint 2013
I’d like to revisit the topics that Leo have so well described in his 2 previous posts titled ”Search 101″ and “Search Architecture in SharePoint 2010″, but discuss those in the context of SharePoint...
View ArticleCrawling content with Sharepoint 2013 Search
Before we get anywhere further with search, let’s discuss in more detail how content is gathered, and that’s via crawling. Crawling is simply a process of gathering documents from various...
View ArticleNotes on securing data with Sharepoint 2013 Search
A few days ago a question came up regarding looking at Sharepoint 2013 Search from a security perspective, specifically looking at any file-storage paths where ingested content may be stored,...
View ArticleInterpreting “Crawl Queue” report with Sharepoint search
We’ve noticed something interesting a few weeks ago while working on a FAST Sharepoint 2010 system. One of the advanced Search Administration Reports called Crawl Queue report was suddenly showing a...
View Article“About X results”: Sharepoint 2013 Search result counts keep changing
A question that’s asked fairly often is regarding the fact that Sharepoint Search seems to show inconsistent result counts from what is initially shown on the very first page and as you move along....
View ArticleHow to tell that a Continuous Crawl is actually working
One of the great things about having Continuous Crawl running is with the fact that it’s supposed to magically work, i.e you enable it and ‘mini-crawls’ are kicked off periodically keeping your index...
View ArticleCertain types of Icons are not being displayed in search results with...
It looks like Sharepoint 2013 Search results are not showing little icons that display the file type next to each result, specifically non-Office/non-PDF type docs. File types like ZIP, EML, MHT and...
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