The document discusses options for configuring search in SharePoint to improve relevance, including query rules, thesaurus, dynamic reordering rules, authorities, and ranking models. It provides examples of using each option to refine search results for specific queries. The options allow driving relevance through phrase-based, historical, and curated matches, as well as rewriting the user's query.

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SharePoint Server MVP since 2005
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http://jopx.blogspot.com

4. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

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Date:
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Type:
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looking for with
intelligent results
tailored to you
Get answers and
take action with an
experience that’s
always a step
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Build smarter/nocode applications
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9. Query:
BT network
quarterly
report
Search
Web Part
(WORDS BT, British Telecom) AND
(WORDS network, networks, networked) AND
(WORDS quarterly, quarterlies) AND
(WORDS report, reports, reported)
Query Processing
Thesaurus: BT  British Telecom
Best bets: BT Network  …/BTN.htm
Dynamic Reordering Rules:
Quarterly Report 
{prefer docs from http://reports}
Query Rule:
{Terms} Quarterly Report 
{Terms} ContentType=“reports”
Mixed Results for:
• BT Network best bet
• BT network quarterly report
• BT network
ContentType=reports
Engine
Document
Collection
For all queries:
Authorities:
Level 1: http://networks
Ranking model: {incorporate user ratings}

10. Dynamic Ranking
Static Ranking

11. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

13. PHRASE-BASED MATCHES
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Exact match, beginning or end
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Ad-hoc or term store dictionary
HISTORICAL (LOG-BASED) MATCHES
•
Is this query more likely aimed at the
following source…?
CURATED (BEST BET)
•
Show a promoted result
REFORMULATE THE USER QUERY
•
Show a block of results
•
Replace the core results with a
different query

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15. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

17. Import…

18. http://bit.ly/1bcSSm4

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20. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

21. Dynamic Rules let you reorder results according to a set of
criteria
They are configured as part of a query
Result actions let you promote or demote results that match

22. Result
Conditions
Result
Actions
Manual condition
looks like a query
Promote up or
demote down

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25. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

27. Setting an authority affects all sites connected through hyperlinks
Sites are weighted
by distance to
the authority
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30. Challenges with search
Configuration options to drive relevance
Query rules
Thesaurus
Dynamic reordering rules
Authorities
Ranking models

31. Query: Ian Monthly
Title=“XBOX Monthly
report”
Type=ppt
Activity=2M clicks
Author=Ian Rankem
Rating = 5
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Transform (normalization)

32. cambridge.enterprise.pdf
http://bit.ly/1cxf6A1
http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec14/papers/microsoft-

33. http://bit.ly/IUaPiZ
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/understanding-itemranking-sharepoint-2013-search-mavention-explainrank-app-sharepoint/

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37. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Sh
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