Information Architecture (IA) is a commonly used term for the art and science of organizing and labeling content (documents, web sites, blog posts, emails, etc.) to support findability and … [Read more...] about Optimizing your Content for Search and Discovery
SharePoint 2016
Think Search First – and have Good Metadata, Please!
My good friend, Matthew McDermott wrote a great blog post a few weeks ago with the title “Think Search First - Planning Your Next SharePoint Project”. In his great storytelling style, … [Read more...] about Think Search First – and have Good Metadata, Please!
SharePoint Search Query Rules: Promoting Results (“Best Bets”)
In many cases, customers complain about "Sharepoint Search doesn't work". While it is a generic objection, and there are many things to evaluate, one of the recommendations I can give is to consider … [Read more...] about SharePoint Search Query Rules: Promoting Results (“Best Bets”)
Search Refiners in SharePoint 2013, 2016 and Office 365
The feature of search refiners has been in SharePoint since the version of 2010. In SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 we have deep refiners, which means each result in the result set is … [Read more...] about Search Refiners in SharePoint 2013, 2016 and Office 365
SharePoint crawl types: Full, Incremental, Continuous
Crawling is the process of gathering the content for search. To retrieve information, the crawl component connects to the content sources by using the proper out-of-the-box or custom connectors. After … [Read more...] about SharePoint crawl types: Full, Incremental, Continuous
Infographic: Search Components to configure in SharePoint (and Office 365)
When it comes to set up / configure / enhance search, there is no silver bullet action plan that works for everyone. However, there is a set of search components that always can be considered to be … [Read more...] about Infographic: Search Components to configure in SharePoint (and Office 365)
Create and Configure Search Centers and Search Pages
When working with Search, I often get the question how to set up the Search Center, and how to configure and customize its Search Pages. In this blog post, I am summarizing the basic configuration … [Read more...] about Create and Configure Search Centers and Search Pages
SharePoint Search is alive and well – by Jeff Fried, BA Insight
See the first part of this series here: Is SharePoint Search Dead? Despite all these signals, there has continued to be a quite healthy investment from Microsoft in search, and SharePoint search is a … [Read more...] about SharePoint Search is alive and well – by Jeff Fried, BA Insight
Is SharePoint Search Dead? “- by Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight
I’m asked regularly whether Microsoft has abandoned the Enterprise Search market. This was a frequent question in 2015, and less frequent in 2016, but there’s been a recent uptick, and I got this … [Read more...] about Is SharePoint Search Dead? “- by Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight
SharePoint User Profiles in Search
So the age-old question is: How To Manage User Profiles in Sharepoint? In my many years of working with enterprise search, the one thing which companies want solved first is finding people. They … [Read more...] about SharePoint User Profiles in Search
