Microsoft Search

Connect your data in Microsoft Search and services…

Connectors are a core feature which enable Microsoft Search to connect to integrate with various database, service, and application sources and to push your app’s rich content into Microsoft Search. Connectors help connect your organization’s data and users so they can achieve more.

Microsoft offers a range of approaches so you can build what is most useful to your business scenario, whether you are an end user, administrator or developer.  There are several approaches to connecting in the data you need across your ecosystem of applications.

Read more at https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/connecting-your-data-into-search-and-services/.

Welcome to Microsoft Search, intelligent search for the modern workplace

Today, we’re announcing general availability of Microsoft Search, an intelligent, enterprise search experience from Microsoft that applies the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, to make search more effective for you – so whether you’re looking to complete a task, pick up where you left off, or discover answers or insights, it’s just a click away, across all of your applications, your desktop, and your browser.

Microsoft Search is everywhere you are, in the header of the apps you’re already using including Office, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Bing and Windows to name a few.

Read more at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Welcome-to-Microsoft-Search-intelligent-search-for-the-modern/ba-p/509097.

Catch up with all of the Microsoft Search news from Microsoft Build 2019

John Roach/Microsoft Blog: How AI is making people’s workday more productive

Rajesh jha/Microsoft 365 Blog: New people-centered experiences in Microsoft 365, the world’s productivity cloud

Microsoft Tech Community Blog: Welcome to Microsoft Search – Intelligent search for the modern workplace

Laurent Giret/OnMSFT: Build 2019: An expanded Microsoft Search begins rollout to all M365 and O365 customers in late May

Lauren Goode/Wired: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Throws the Doors Open Ahead of Build

Joel Oleson/CMSWire: Looking at the Evolution of Microsoft Search

Mark Hatchman/PC World: Microsoft's intelligent, context-aware search boxes are coming to all of its apps and services

Read more at https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/catch-up-on-all-of-the-microsoft-search-news-from-microsoft-build-2019/.

Microsoft Search in Bing Adoption Kit

The Microsoft Search in Bing adoption kit includes several ready to use templates for email, Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint to help your Office 365 users understand how Microsoft Search in Bing helps them be more productive every day. You'll be set up for a successful roll-out, no matter what your business challenges.

The Microsoft Search in Bing (MSB) Adoption Kit is designed as a flexible awareness program admins/champions can use for change management within their organisation, increasing user adoption and engagement. The Kit includes planning and preparation guidance, several tools, and templates that can be fully customized for the needs of each organization.

Read more and download the adoption kit at https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/microsoft-search-in-bing-adoption-kit/.

Search that works – wherever you're working

Microsoft Search is an intelligent, enterprise search experience from Microsoft that applies the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, to make search more effective for you, increasing productivity and saving you time – so whether you’re looking to find people, files, or conversations, complete a task, pick up where you left off, or discover answers or insights, it’s just a click away, across all of your applications, your desktop, and your browser.  Microsoft Search is ready when you are, so there’s nothing you need to do to start benefiting from this new search experience – just look for the new search box in the header of the applications you’re using everyday.

Read more at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Search-that-works-wherever-you-re-working/ba-p/576431.

Transfer Learning for Machine Reading Comprehension

Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person

Microsoft researchers have created technology that uses artificial intelligence to read a document and answer questions about it about as well as a human.

It’s a major milestone in the push to have search engines such as Bing and intelligent assistants such as Cortana interact with people and provide information in more natural ways, much like people communicate with each other.

A team at Microsoft Research Asia reached the human parity milestone using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, known among researchers as SQuAD. It’s a machine reading comprehension dataset that is made up of questions about a set of Wikipedia articles.

Read more at https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-creates-ai-can-read-document-answer-questions-well-person/.

Microsoft Search, bringing intelligence to your world of information in Microsoft 365 and beyond

For search to work, search needs to evolve, it needs to be interwoven into the products you use every day. Today at Microsoft Ignite we announced new innovation for Microsoft Search to enhance productivity, empower greater discovery of information, insights, and people, and extend the benefits of Microsoft Search to encompass your data across your own content outside of Microsoft 365.

By applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Bing to the deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, we can make search in your organization even more effective. We're also introducing new organizational search experiences into the apps you use every day, including Microsoft Edge, and our vision to connect across your organization’s network of data.

Read more at https://aka.ms/microsoftsearch/blog/ignite.

Microsoft Search Updates – July 2020

Have you ever misplaced something?  Maybe it was your car keys, your favorite jewelry, or something else…  The typical process you go through is probably something like this – you ask yourself the question, “where did I put my keys” and then walk backward from where you last went, which rooms you were last in…

That process is synonymous with a traditional search experience, a query and continuous refining of the query until you find what you were looking for – while this process may work for you on one occasion, it’s not consistent enough to be valuable in the future, and what if the keys you’re looking for, aren’t the ones you misplaced, but those of a roommate, partner, or someone else?

Read more at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/microsoft-search-updates-july-2020/ba-p/1519374.