How do I restrict search results in SharePoint?

Here is how you can restrict the SharePoint search to fetch results only from the specific content source.

  1. Login to the search center site created.
  2. On the Manage Result Sources page, click on the “New Result Source” link.
  3. In Add Result Source page, Provide a Name to the Result Source and optionally a description.

Why is my SharePoint search not working?

Select Site Settings. Under Search, select Search and offline availability. Make sure that Allow this site to appear in Search results is set to Yes. After the setting is set to Yes, the site should be indexed during the next scheduled crawl.

What is wildcard search in SharePoint?

Bonus: Wildcard Search Another cool search feature you can use with both Options 1 & 2 is wild card search. That is when you don’t know exact keywords, only a portion of the text you are looking for (i.e. first few letters).

How do I make a SharePoint site not searchable?

On the Site Settings page, click on the “Search and offline availability” link under the “Search” section. Set the “Allow this site to appear in search results?” option to “No” in the Indexing Site Content section, Then click on OK.

How do you limit search results?

To limit results to a particular site, you can add “site:” and then the Web address of the site. For example site:techlicious.com “internet privacy”. To exclude a site, put a minus sign before the word site.

How do I configure SharePoint search?

Steps To Configure Search Service In SharePoint 2013 – Part One

  1. Step 1 Managed Accounts are required for a SharePoint Search Service. To do that, go to Central Administration page and click on “Security”.
  2. Step 2 Create Search service application.
  3. Step 3 Configure Search Service application.

How do I make a SharePoint site searchable?

Show content on a site in search results

  1. On the site, select Settings. , and then select Site settings.
  2. Under Search, click Search and offline availability.
  3. In the Indexing Site Content section, under Allow this site to appear in Search results, select Yes to allow the content of the site to appear in search results.

How do I make SharePoint searchable?

What is advanced search?

Advanced search is a full search of the entire dictionary text. It finds your term wherever it occurs in the dictionary. This could be in the form of an entry name, part of another word’s definition, in a quotation, etc.