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Microsoft Search in SharePoint is the modern search experience in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online also offers a classic search experience. As a search administrator, you can’t turn either of these search experiences on or off. They’re both on by default. Which search experience your users get depends on where they search from:
How to create custom search results pages in SharePoint Online?
Browse to the site where you would like to configure a custom results page and select Site Collection Settings, Search Settings. In Search Settings, choose to “Send queries to a custom results page”, and provide a value for Results page URL: and save your changes. Configuring the custom results page in SharePoint.
Is there a workaround to enable search Center for external users?
Yes, you can use the workaround to enable search center for external users, it’s valid. The default search result page don’t apply to the external users and it cannot be edit in SharePoint Online, either. But, you can configure the search settings to make the search result open to external user.
Can a search page be open to external users?
The default search result page don’t apply to the external users and it cannot be edit in SharePoint Online, either. But, you can configure the search settings to make the search result open to external user.
In the search index, site columns are mapped to managed properties. When a user enters a query in a search box, the query is sent to the search index. The search engine finds matching results, and sends them to a search results page.
Is there a search box in SharePoint 2013?
With SharePoint 2013, document libraries (and most lists for that matter), got its own Search Box. This allowed the users to search for content just in the particular list or library. Unlike the option above, this provided some targeted search results, since the scope of the search was only limited to that one list or library.
If these results aren’t what you’re looking for, click the link to see more results or press Enter to open the search results page and see and explore all the results. Here’s an example of search results from SharePoint: