SharePoint 2019 - Only giving Excel search results

Question

Dear reader,

We have an On-Premise SharePoint 2019 installation.
Since the upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2019 the search function is not working correctly anymore.

In SharePoint 2013 when we search for something it search in everything and comes back with a lot of results, items/ files/ lists etc...

When we search in SharePoint 2019 we only get files (mostly excel) but nothing else.
I have checked every single option for searching and also compared it to our old 2013 enviroment but everything seems to be the same in settings.

Hope anyone can help me out on this one.

Kind regards,

Matthew

Answer 1

Please kindly provide more information below to narrow down and resolve the issue.

1.Go to Central Administration -> Search service application -> Crawl log -> Crawl history -> Check whether contents are crawled successfully.

2.Go to Result sources and Query rules to check whether you set search query.

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