Near duplicate trimming must to be turned off for Office.com / SharePoint Home and Delve.

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Boom, it hit us again. A director at a customer complained that his document was not showing up in search. And again, the culpris was near duplicate trimming.

 

Turns out, where we previously could turn off duplicate trimming in the Enterprise search center, this is not possible in any search UI Microsoft choose to deliver - and it's on by default.

 

So, again, I raise my concern. The implementation of duplicate trimming since SharePoint 2013 is just too poor to be useful in a large organization, and it should be turned off by default. If you, Microsoft, decide to keep it, at least provide a hint in ALL UI's that there are duplicate items to be found.

 

If you want to know more about my new life motto "Sensible defaults" let me know :)

 

cc @Kathrine Hammervold @Naomi Moneypenny

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