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SharePoint in Microsoft 365 has both a classic and a modern search experience, where Microsoft Search in SharePoint is the modern search experience. The most visible difference is that the Microsoft Search box is placed at the top of SharePoint, in the header bar.
Search in SharePoint enables users to find relevant information more quickly and easily than ever before and makes it easy for Search administrators to customize the search experience. It also provides several API sets for more advanced customizations and solutions. Choose the right API set in SharePoint.
How often does SharePoint Online crawl?
every 4-8 hours
Generally, your site will perform a crawl every 4-8 hours, which can vary depending on which version of SharePoint your business uses.
Is there a search function on SharePoint?
Search in SharePoint enables users to find relevant information more quickly and easily than ever before and makes it easy for Search administrators to customize the search experience. It also provides several API sets for more advanced customizations and solutions.
It’s common that users are unable to find specific documents that they know have been added to SharePoint. Even if you don’t have an active report of a user, it’s a good idea to know typical reasons so you could proactively keep an eye out for them. Some types of SharePoint sites have a Site settings menu accessible from the settings icon.
On Premises you could also check the crawl log to see if the item hit an error during indexing. If the search query is expecting to hit document body content you should also check that the source text is readable by the search engine. In the case of PDF documents, they will need to be OCR’d.
Is the SharePoint search engine a black art?
After all, SharePoint Search is just a collection of properties stored for query and retrieval by the Search engine. The perception that Search is a black art often extends to users and their expectations. When search does not yield the results a user expects we should always investigate what they expect and why they expect it.
How to get search results in SharePoint Online?
Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner. Select Site Settings. Under Search, select Search and offline availability. Make sure that Allow this site to appear in search results? is set to Yes.