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Searching in SharePoint - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Searching in SharePoint
Search is built into SharePoint from top to bottom. SharePoint has a built in search engine that's very, very good and you'll find a search box on just about every page in every site in SharePoint. You will typically find it over here on the right-hand side of the Ribbon. Though do take care if you shifted your Ribbon into a different mode that may have gone away. But if you go back to your Browse mode on your Ribbon, you should see it and be able to search through the content of this site. It's common to think that search is just there in SharePoint and you just take what SharePoint gives you, but it can go much deeper than that. Search is very customizable. Now some things can only be changed by your farm administrator, such as what content is being searched and what file types are being searched. SharePoint can search not only SharePoint sites, but also search things like external folders on a network drive, even public websites and Exchange folders. However, those are only…