Microsoft Search results and answers

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Microsoft Search can help transform your organization’s search experience by connecting users with the correct information in less time. Some Microsoft Search customers have seen a 50% to 75% reduction in average time spent on work-related searches—potentially saving each user up to 10 days a year.

Save time infographic showing people save an average of 25 minutes every work day using Microsoft Search.

  • Bookmarks and Q&As: Help users quickly navigate to internal sites and tools with bookmarks and provide answers right away with Q&As. Microsoft Search admin tools will recommend bookmarks for your organization to reduce the manual effort required to create these answers.

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  • People, org charts, and groups: Find info about their role, ways to contact them, their org chart, files they’re sharing with you, and more.

Animated GIF showing Microsoft Search people answer, including overview, organizational chart, and groups.

  • Files and sites: Get contextual and relevant Office files, PDFs, photos, videos, and more from SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Microsoft Search will also return results for internal SharePoint sites. Users will only get results for files and sites that they have access to.

Image showing Microsoft Search in Bing file results answer.

  • Acronyms: Create answers to help users find and understand acronyms and abbreviations commonly used in your organization.

Image showing Microsoft Search acronym answer with definitions for QAS.

  • Shared and upcoming meetings: See what’s coming up on your calendar, see shared meetings, and free/busy time for people in your organization.

Image showing Calendar tab on profile card.

  • Locations and floor plans: See building, office, and campus locations on a map along with the street address or find offices or desk locations.

Image showing Microsoft Search Location and Floor plan answers.

  • Messages: Search your private and public Teams chats and Outlook emails to find relevant results.

  • Connectors: Make data and info outside of Microsoft 365 searchable with connectors.

Image showing results from Support KB connector.