Search Scopes
After defining content sources, they have to be organized to search scopes to make available the search results to the users and to refine them. Search scopes also can be configured on the admin page of the search service application, by the following steps:
- Go to the administration page of your Search Service Application, and choose Scopes from the Queries and Results group of the Quick Launch navigation bar.
- Click New Scope.
- Add a name and an optional description to the scope (for example, SharePoint Documents).
- If you’ve already defined a search center (see later), you can specify a target result page for this scope as well; for example, /search/Pages/results.aspx. Otherwise, you can select the default Use the Default Search ...