Setting up Federated Search in SharePoint 2013

Setting up Federated Search.

What Exactly is Federated Search? Federated Search was introduced with an infrastructure update in MOSS 2007. Federated Search basically uses the index created by another search engine. It supplies the keyword(s) you enter and gets the result from that Index.

Federated Search only works with indexes compatible with OpenSearch 1.0/1.1 which means that it is compatible with other SharePoint farms, YouTube and Bing to name a some. Federated Search is not compatible with Google.

There are a lot of really excellent blogs on the internet describing Federated Search and how to set it up. Rather than spending time writing how I set up my federated search I direct you to an excellent blog in two parts:

Part 1: http://3sharp.com/blog/build-a-federated-result-source-for-sharepoint-2013-search-part-1/

Part 2: http://3sharp.com/blog/build-a-federated-result-source-for-sharepoint-2013-search-part-2/

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