How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint

re: How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint

Vamshideep — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:05:13 GMT

Great Post Vaidyanath! Do we have any improvements in crawling Host Header Site collections? Was this concept of continuous crawl borrowed from Fast Search?

re: How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint

Vaidyanathan Raghavan — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:18:14 GMT

@Mike: Thank you for your feedback. I've included a note at the top of the post and added an entry to the FAQ section as well to talk about versions. Updating the title to 'Introducing Continuous Crawl for SharePoint 2013' has the potential of conveying that it is limited to 2013 content as well. Which is not the case (the service farm needs to be 2013, the content farm need not).

re: How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint

Mike Walsh — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:19:10 GMT

While right at the bottom of this piece (just above the Facebook etc. line of icons) there are references to SharePoint *2013*, there was nothing in the Title or the entire text of the piece to indicate that this blog was about 2013.

I appreciate that your focus is clearly very much on 2013 at this time, but it's still not a released product and people are still writing blogs on SP 2010.

Surely it wouldn't be too much to ask that you include "2013" at least in your Title. "How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint 2013" isn't that much longer than what you now have, is it?

re: How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint

Cato Antonsen — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:19:47 GMT

I have to admit I don't understand why Sharepoint don't trigger a crawl of every updated content. Instead it relies on scheduled crawls. If I upload a document, it should automatically crawl it. Incremental, or even continious, crawl shouldn't be necessary in the first place!