Configuring Search and result output

In this section, we'll review some of the configuration possibilities for the Search web part, as well as the result types and display templates. These options will help you set the query and display parameters for searches submitted on the SharePoint farm.

You can customize the search experience further by modifying the properties of the various web parts that are used to input search terms and display the results, including the following:

• The Content Search web part
• The Search Results web part
• The Search Results query
• The Search Results display template
• The Search Results settings
• The Search Results refinement

Let's examine each of these in turn.

The Content Search web part

The Search Box is the web part that you normally think of for searching: it's an input textbox like you'd see on an internet search engine. The Search Box web part is displayed on the default home page, as well as the default results pages. You can update...