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

 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?
Agenda – What’s New?
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Bar/Slider Refiner
Web Page Result Type
PowerPoint Result Type
User Interface Improvements
Hover Panel
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Result Sources
 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
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 Goodbye to XSLT, hello HTML and JavaScript
 Managed Properties
 External and Inline JavaScript
 HTML
Display Templates
 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 (SP2013)
“when the user is looking for ‘holiday schedule’, show users useful results”
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Search Keywords/Best Bets (SP2010)
“when the query is ‘holiday schedule’, promote a specific link” http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2012/09/18/what-happened-to-best-bets-introducing-query-rules.aspx
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Query Rules
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 Manipulate the default search query
 Content by Search Web Part
 Result Sources
 Result Types
 Search Core Results Web Part
 Uses KQL (Keyword Query Language) http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.com/2012/08/whats-new-within-sharepoint-2013-search.html
Query Builder
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Content By Search Web Part (CSWP)
 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)
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Demo 2
Query Rules
Query Builder
Content By Search Web Part

Changes in Crawling
Keeping it fresh
Crawler runs every 15 minutes
Continuous Crawling
Adaptable
Craws adapt as necessary to the change rate of SharePoint content
No Index merge
Items appear in results after they have been crawled
Only works with SharePoint sites as content sources
Continuous Incremental
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Content Enrichment
 Comes default out of the box in 2013 – required FAST for SharePoint in SP2010
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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 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/11/13/customize-the-sharepoint-2013-search-experience-with-a-content-enrichment-web-service.aspx
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Query Logs and Usage Reports
 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
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Why Upgrade?
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Questions?

Contact
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