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In this blog post, I have shared information about Sitecore Search. Most of the content in this post are my notes from a webinar presented by development team of Sitecore Search that I felt I should share with you :) What is Sitecore Search? Sitecore Search is an API first product designed by Sitecore to build search experiences from scratch without the need of complex code. The APIs can be integrated in any solution and the look and feel can be configured to match the application. Sitecore SPEAK also provides some UI elements that can be integrated with these APIs to build the search experience. Sitecore Search can be a great offering while re-platforming an application. In this post, we will learn more about capabilities of Sitecore Search. How Sitecore Search can help your organization? Sitecore search is great for marketers. It empowers them to configure searchable experiences without need of technology personnel. It enhances content discovery which generates more leads. Hence, it

SOLR SEARCH QUICK NOTES http://www.solrtutorial.com/solr-query-syntax.html BASIC CONCEPTS Solr prepares indexes. Indexes contains documents and documents contains fields. Documents can be assumed as rows in a table and fields as columns in tables. Before adding documents to index, we need to specify the schema. (not advisable to change schema after documents have been added).  The schema declares - what kinds of fields there are which field should be used as primary key which fields are required how to index and search each field When we search for a word, the word undergoes transformation to get converted to a token. SOLR then looks for these tokens in its indexes. Each token contains references to pages where it was found when SOLR was crawling and this is how search results are returned. All fields are not searchable. Many of them are maintained in indexes so that when a match is found, the field values may need to be displayed in the search results. This is done by following settin