(Old) SharePoint Search: content-centric (SharePoint Search Center)
(New) Modern Search: people-centric (Teams, Office, OneDrive, Delve etc.)
Office graph = codename for collective set of services and insights we generate on top of the infrastructure that fast office graph group developed
= social Intel concepts (SharePoint home, Delve, OneDrive Discoverview) are derivatives of Office graph
Microsoft Graph = API ( +universal search API)
Turing technology – understands you, answers your question e.g. hover over doc -> doc summary (based on “deep speed” AI model)
announcement at Ignite23-pages blog
Modern Search: MS nailed the fundamentals, now start bringing it everywhere – to Teams first, then SharePoint (Nov 2020).
Modern Search Customizations – we’ll take the best from Classic SharePoint Search,
a lot will retire – investing in more flexibility
PnP modern Search
– custom result pages, webparts, branding theme; filters, refiners, scoping control )
– search layout designer – wysiwyg editor
pnp modern search – webparts (video)
https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search
Core idea behind Microsoft search is coherence
Bill Baer:
“People use search in a different ways
1) you have organisations who have a well-established intranet built around set of governance controls, a very clean architecture and they want to build a search into that intranet scenario; that’s why a lot of SharePoint capabilities are going to come along with Microsoft search for that particular endpoint
2) then you have other people who live their day in teams“
Shared search engine results page (developed once – transitioned everywhere)
Ctrl-F to search through teams (chats?) (contextual search)
Outlook search – more natural language
Image search (before eoy), +
teams chats, outlook groups conversations, yammer conversation -> bing, office.com, sharepoint
bookmarks (new promoted results)
Targeting bookmarks for the specific audience based on device/OS, region, security groups
SharePoint Search Admin Center -> will be migrated from SharePoint admin center to to Microsoft Search Admin Center transitioning (Search and Intelligence Admin Center) – long-running project custom dictionaries, spelling suggestions – will retire, (move to a graph-driven spellar)
promoted results -> bookmarks
Graph Connectors… Federation with Azure Cognitive Search
PowerBI search vertical
Standalone Search – AAD identity – Graph connector – Ingest your data – use Search = in Windows 10, Office.com ( e.g. for those who have their data in other productivity suite, have no intent to use m365, but want to search)
More info:
Current state of SharePoint Search and Microsoft Search scopes
