Top 5 Ways to Search in SharePoint

The following are the top 5 ways to search in SharePoint:

1. Site Search Box: This is the search box one can find in the top of a SharePoint site. It is utilized to search the current site and all subsites underneath it.
2. Document Library Search Box: This search box allows one to search for the content just in the particular list or library. This provides some targeted search results, since the scope of the search is only limited to that of one list or library.
3. SharePoint Home: This is a modern or intelligent search which relies on Office Graph (machine learning). It tracks  activities, recently accessed files, connections, and interactions with colleagues and presents one with corresponding results.
4. Office 365 Home: This is a way to perform global searches.
5. 10 search commands: SharePoint has some specific search commands which can be utilized to complement the search keyword. Example: content: , body: , etc where after each command one types in what they are looking for.

SharePoint - Search

The following are SharePoint dictionary words of the day related to search:

Search service account

Account under which the search service runs.

 

Search shared application object

Instance of a shared application for search which stores search-specific settings.

SharePoint - Search Scope

The following are SharePoint dictionary words of the day related to search scope:

Search scope consumer

Ste collection which uses a certain search scope display group.

 

Search scope display group

Ordered set of search scopes used for returning search displays.

 

Search scope index

Specialized component of a full-text index catalog which is built on the values of scoped properties.

 

Search scope rule

Attribute which specifies items that are included in a search scope.

SharePoint - Search

The following are SharePoint dictionary words of the day related to search:

Search application

Unique group of search settings which are associated, to one’s on-premises or tenant search service provider.

 

Search catalog

Crawl data which is associated with a given search application. The search catalog provides information utilized to generate query results.

 

Search database

Database which stores search-related information, this can include stored procedures and tables that are used for crawler data, document metadata, and administration information.