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jrapine
Copper Contributor
Jan 23, 2020

Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployOffice/microsoft-search-bing Guys... you just can't do this. It's fine if you want to develop a browser extension, but it needs to be an "opt-in." Most admin...
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RobOK
Bronze Contributor
Jan 26, 2020

jrapine 

 

There is definitely weirdness in and around Bing these days. It is a good option to allow enterprise search from Bing, but in practical terms few people work that way to mix external and internal searching. Maybe inside microsoft they do? I'd be interested to hear.

 

In O365 Admin panel, under Search, there is a prominent panel for Search terms that people are searching on. Great! I thought. It was always blank for me, kind of right in my face about it. Finally i opened a ticket -- turns out that is only search results of people search from BING if they have enterprise integration with Bing turned on! Fail!

 

Then I saw in Search the features for spelling out Acronyms and adding frequent questions. Cool, maybe a precursor to Cortex I am thinking, so I put some in.  It turns out Acronyms ONLY show up in Bing search and not inside sharepoint. Crazy! Frequent Questions show up both in Bing and internal to Sharepoint. Very inconsistently implemented. There is some small print on one documentation page that says the internal availability "is coming in 2020".

 

My point in posting this (besides general knowledge) is that I think there is a lot of Bing and O365 integration going on, but Microsoft is not telling us the vision for that.

 

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