Isn't time for a better search? We're increasingly turning to search engines to accomplish tasks and make decisions – in fact over half the internet population will start their internet experience with a search engine.
Microsoft Search transforms the way people in your organization find the info they need—no matter where you are in your cloud journey. Either integrated with Microsoft 365 or as a standalone solution, Microsoft Search is a secure, easily managed, enterprise search experience that works across all of your applications and services to deliver more relevant search results and increase productivity.
Microsoft Search meets you wherever you are. From SharePoint to Microsoft Teams, from Office to Outlook, enabling you to harness the collective knowledge of your organization so everyone can be more engaged and effective every day. Using the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph, relevant content will surface to keep you up to date allowing you to unlock creativity with personalized search and discover people & content in the context of your work.
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Training & Adoption Resources
Microsoft Search Usage Guide
The Microsoft Search usage guide will help you navigate Microsoft Search, which will help improve your search experience and add greater value to your work. You’ll find tips to make the most of Microsoft Search for various industries, including: Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Retail.
DownloadMicrosoft Search eBook
The modern workplace looks quite different than it did ten years ago. More people are working outside of the office, and using myriad devices and tools to get their work done. No matter where people work or what kind of device they use, they need the ability to quickly and easily find the information that will help them be more productive and informed.
DownloadMicrosoft Search: What's new and what's next
Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search. Come on the journey to learn how insights, actions and answers are being built into your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365. See the latest roadmap on Microsoft Search across all your experiences and applications in Microsoft 365.
DownloadMicrosoft Search Presentation
Wherever you are working, search is personalized. Bringing you content from across Office 365—from OneDrive, SharePoint, Exchange and more. Powered by the Microsoft Graph, search in any application brings you information based on what you’re working on, who you’re working with; always maintaining established permissions.
DownloadMicrosoft 365 Productivity Library
The Microsoft 365 Productivity Library allows you to discover what's possible with Microsoft 365 and explore simple ways to get going fast through use cases, pivoted around all-up Microsoft 365 functionality. These scenarios help you to start the conversation with users about how they can use Microsoft 365 in their day-to-day work and life.
LearnMicrosoft Search in Bing Admin Essentials Guide
Learn how to effectively deploy Microsoft Search in Bing to make finding work results as simple as searching the web. This short training course covers administration-related topics that will help you increase Microsoft Search in Bing engagement across your organization and help users get answers faster.
DownloadMicrosoft Search Fundamentals
This learning path introduces you to tasks you will perform as a Global admin, Search admin, or Search editor working with Microsoft Search. We’ll start with the basics in the first two modules and then move on to more advanced topics.
DownloadMicrosoft Search in Bing EDU Adoption Kit
This adoption kit for teachers and students includes short, visual PDFs created for sharing on Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint. Use the content to inform your Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users about using Microsoft Search in Bing to find the school info they need and get more time for learning.
DownloadMicrosoft Search in Bing GCC Adoption Kit
This adoption kit for US government users includes short, visual PDFs created for sharing on Teams and SharePoint. Use the content to inform your Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users about using Microsoft Search to find the work info they need while also saving time and increasing productivity.
DownloadMicrosoft Search in Bing Adoption Kit
This adoption kit for enterprise users includes short, visual PDFs created for sharing on Teams and SharePoint. Use the content to inform your Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users about using Microsoft Search to find the work info they need while also saving time and increasing productivity.
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News & Announcements
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.
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
For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details.
In search applications, machine comprehension will give a precise answer rather than a URL that contains the answer somewhere within a lengthy web page. Moreover, machine comprehension models can understand specific knowledge embedded in articles that usually cover narrow and specific domains, where the search data that algorithms depend upon is sparse.
Read more at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/transfer-learning-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.
