SharePoint Search

Search is a key feature of SharePoint; search enables the users to find information from the SharePoint knowledge repository.

Fetching information by navigating will be a tedious task, especially for larger organizations which have accumulated tones of information over a period of time. This is where search comes in handy, it helps fetching information from documents, records, files and other external sources.

Feature	Description
Multiple Sources	Search for data in multiple source locations like Sites, Documents, Records, documents, External files, External Databases etc
Search Scope	We can define a Scope for the search, thereby limiting access to a specific area and providing rich and focused search results.
Search Alerts	When we perform a search we can set and alert which will intimate us whenever the search result changes, this happened when a new content is added to the search keyword or when any of the existing items are updated. We can set alerts to topics of interest, and alerts helps to know the latest developments in the topic.
Subscribe RSS Feeds	Similar to Alerts, we can also subscribe for RSS feeds on specific search results and get updated with the latest changes.
Maintain Security	Display search result after filtering out the privileges set for the current user
People Search	Search for people based on their location, skills, etc
Highlight keywords	Highlight keywords in search results
Provide Suggestions	Provide Google like “Did you mean” suggestions to improve search accuracy

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