What happens when the internal SharePoint Search functionality is not enough? This video explores some free as well as paid options for extending the out of the box SharePoint Search functionality.

Once you understand Search relevancy, you understand why people are getting results they are getting and not getting what you want them to get. The SharePoint Search engine ranks items using pre-configured algorithms in an organized manner and returns them based on terms of search query. It’s all pretty complicated internally. This video digs into how to make sense of Search relevancy in SharePoint.

Setting up best bets in Search means taking a particular result/item and promoting it to the top of your result set as a best bet for particular search term. Learn how to setup your best bets and also how you can modify the best bets web part to provide the most relevant results for your users

Search analytics help you learn how search is being used now to make it better. Analytics tells you what the users ‘really want’ and not only what they are telling you they need. Watch this video to learn how to work with web analytics within SharePoint

Watch this video to learn how to add search scopes in the Advanced Search page. These search scopes are created at Central Administration and then added by Site Collection administrators to their site collections.

This video demonstrates how to edit displayed core search properties. You will learn how to easily expose the metadata columns that you would like to see in search results properties (adding to predefined properties such as Authors, Date, Size etc)

Ever wondered how and if you can add a managed property (from MMS) as a refiner? Sure you can! Watch this video to learn how to add a new refiner by configuring the refinement panel web part.

When search results are displayed with refiners (faceted navigation) on the quick launch, wouldn’t it be nice to see how many results are behind each refiner presented? This video demonstrates the quick change you need to make to show result counts next to each refiner in the quick launch. It also shows how to increase accuracy index to increase the number of results SharePoint is going to analyze in the result set.

This video shows how to deploy and redirect to a new Search Center to display search results – including people search results.

Search scopes are setup to define a specific pathway for the search engine to follow when a narrowed search is needed. This video shows how to create and use search scopes in central administration as well as site collection.