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Search in SharePoint

SharePoint’s search is a powerful tool for discovering, sorting, and filtering content added to SharePoint sites. Search can index pages, lists, libraries, and even access the content of supported documents and extract search terms from the document content. In addition, SharePoint’s search index can be used to create different content aggregations and, as an example, out-of-the-box news web parts utilize the search index to aggregate content from different locations in SharePoint. SharePoint search includes sophisticated features such as promoting or ranking important search results.

In the modern SharePoint, as well as many other Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Search is the default search experience. Microsoft Search ...

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