Chris O'Brien: Using the Content Search web part (and understanding SP2013 search)

Chris O'Brien: Using the Content Search web part (and understanding SP2013 search):



SharePoint 2013 does have some social functionality out of the box, but as we now, even Microsoft realizes that their technology has its limitations.  Some of the limitations can be overcome using the Content Search web part. One of the big issues with SharePoint social is that it still tends to silo information into different team sites, site collections, subsite, etc.  If you have a large environment with many different site collections and you interact with many of them, you can find yourself, your content, and your discussion lost in the forest.  The Content Search web part can traverse multiple properties and aggregate information for you.  You can set up the web part in any page and have it specific to the user to the page.  So the results are customize for them.  It goes a long way to tying SharePoint together.  



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