Forum Discussion
Improving SPO/Delve Search
MicrosoftCertainly, as was just said, it's our goal to make everything findable. We have a lot of exciting improvements to search--both in experience, personalization and underlying content--underway. Can't discuss any specific plans, but I can say there will be some good news for you as this year progresses, and the journey will be ongoing.
I'll wait and hope for the best. Seems to me the direction shown at Ignite is contextualized search...where you get data where you are working. This does not say a unified global index of sorts, and I'm unsure how smart one big index actually is for all kinds of content.
The old story of mixing apples and oranges (which in a fruit salad is a good idea ;) )
I do get the unified index q a lot, but more often than not without very good use cases attached for it. And when usecases come, they can often be solved by thinking about it a bit different. Of course, unifying results from multiple repos takes a dev effort.
Here's one discrepancy which illustrates the problem of multiple teams doing search stuff, which ideally could be unified. SP search API allows you to fine OneNote pages. MS Graph OneNote API allows search of OCR'd images in those same pages. Two teams, two API's, same rawdata.