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The result source is a definition that specifies each of the following: A search provider or source URL to get search results from — for example, the search index of the local SharePoint Search service
Here we will see Find an item search box does not return results in SharePoint 2013/2016 or SharePoint Online. The Find an Item in place search box, allows users to quickly search for items or documents inside the list or library in SharePoint. To see the search results, we do not need to navigate to any other search result page.
How to change the default search result in SharePoint?
That Search Results Web Part specifies the result source for the query; by default, this result source is “Local SharePoint Results”. You can set a different result source as the default. You can also edit any Search Results Web Part to specify a different result source for it to use.
By default, search results are sorted by relevance rank. This means that SharePoint places the most relevant results on top in the search result set. If you sort by rank, the results are always sorted in descending order. But you can change the sort order to ascending by using SortDirection ().
SharePoint Server provides 16 pre-defined result sources for the classic search experience. The pre-configured default result source is Local SharePoint Results. You can specify a different result source as the default.
Is it possible to limit search results in SharePoint?
While working with SharePoint search solutions, we might come across a scenario where we are required to limit the search results to specific content. There were Search scopes in SharePoint 2010 to achieve this. The Search Scopes were replaced with the “Result Source” in SharePoint 2013.
A search provider or source URL to get search results from — for example, the search index of the local SharePoint Search service A query transform, which can narrow results from the given search provider or URL to a specified subset — for example, a subset that has a particular content type