Rock your SharePoint Search With 13 Easy Tune-Ups

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Search is a key component in SharePoint Online as well as SharePoint 2013, and the new search page is a vast improvement over search in SharePoint 2010. By using all the new tools available to tune search in a configuration only manner you can easily improve and customize the search experience to suit your company's needs. This session will cover 13 easy tune-ups based on the experience with SharePoint 2013 so far, which will improve on the end-user search experience. Everyone setting up search should consider these tune-ups as standard setup for new SharePoint installations. This session will among other things cover: * how to improve findability by ranking content * how to improve findability by smart refiners * improve the visual previews of your results * search as you type functionality to quicker find relevant content.

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Rock your SharePoint Search With 13 Easy Tune-Ups Mikael Svenson Principal Consultant MVP, MCT, P-TSP

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Rock your SharePoint Search With 13 Easy Tune-Ups Mikael Svenson Principal Consultant MVP, MCT, P-TSP
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Unclutter the UI Turn off advanced settings link its for librarians and archivers
Unclutter the UI Turn off preferences link people just want search to work
Unclutter the UI Do users care or know what language they are searching in?
Unclutter the UI Turn off refiners which doesnt make sense to you
Unclutter the UI More pagers, yet another visual clue vs.
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Display Templates and Preview Visualize your content PDF not in SPO
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Last saved by refiner Author is based on document metadata
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Refine by items closer to you People like me have my best interest in mind
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Refiner and Vertical Counts Counter cues can highlight navigation paths
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Search as you type With real hits, not search query suggestions, or both
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Authoritative Web Pages Content closer to the most authoritative page gets more points!
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Duplicate trimming is evil By default, trims too much
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File format refiner Fact: People dont refine Make it visual to increase usage
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Optimize people search Query language matters
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Make your own real title Extracted one might not be the preferred title
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Best bets Use them! Style them!
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Fresh content does matter
Summary 1. Clean up the UI 2. Custom views for custom types 3. Who is the author? 4. People like me 5. Counts 6. Search as you type 7. Authorative sites 8. Duplicate trimming 9. File types 10. Query language matters 11. What is the title? 12. Best bets 13. Freshness
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Contact Information E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @mikaelsvenson Linked-in: no.linkedin.com/in/mikaels Blog: techmikael.blogspot.com Code: spsearchparts.codeplex.com

Rock your SharePoint Search With 13 Easy Tune-Ups

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