New improvements in search results page:

You have everything ready for search lets start searching. Open the Enterprise Search center site collection.

New Improvements in Search results page are:

See the below Figure where you have different options to search like.

• Everything
• People
• Conversations
• Videos
• Reports

Below one is a basic search site, these options will be available in enterprise search as well. You can observe that under Result Type:1 you can search based on document type like PDF, web page, word etc.

Next one is based on Author:2 who created the document.

Third one is based on Modified date 3: where you can change the search results based on date can be changed using slider.

The options for slider are one year ago, one month ago, one week ago.

Once you select the document from the search results small popup opens where you can see

• Document name
• Document type
• Last modified
• Contributor

There are three more options to Open, send via email and View library to see the details of the library where the document or item stored.

No more PDF Ifilters:

You don't need to install the PDF Ifilter and make a lot of settings to search PDF documents in SharePoint 2013.

That will take care by SharePoint 2013 now, Please see above Figure, where i have uploaded a PDF document and it displayed for users without doing any configuration or settings. 

Conclusion:

We have created the Search service application, created the accounts required to create it and we have seen how search administration page looks and what are the new changes in Search topology. Then we created the Content source, while creating it we have seen new option called "Enable Continuous crawl", then we created the Search center and what are the new changes in search results page.

Hope this post is useful to start the basic search configuration for your farm environment.

In coming posts we will see more about search changes in SharePoint 2013.

Enjoy the SharePoint search features provided in SharePoint 2013.