Search Center Concepts

When you are setting up your site, one of the questions that you have are the concepts which surround the search server and how to set up the application. The set-up is pretty straightforward and can be easily run on either the premise or in the cloud. 

When you're setting up your search center, it is important to remember that the search center itself is a site template. This template inherits the design elements from a master page which allows you to integrate the search center into your site with relative ease. A universal search center has the capacity to serve many site collections, and the site template will respond to the site template which is selected. 

In general, there are three important aspects which surround effective search center designs. This requires the initiative of designers in implementing a uniform style to the site overall.

• Query Configuration: Query rules are used to control ranking, query intent classifications, synonyms, and query rewriting. 
• Presentation Configuration: Query rules and display templates determine how the information is shown to the user for which query is imposed, such as the type of document and the category of user. 
• Faceted Navigation: Metadata for top-down navigation and metadata exposed as search results for bottom-up refinement are now both managed through the term store.