Integrate Bing Search In SharePoint Online

What is Search?

• SharePoint Search is used to get the keyword results from SharePoint sites, using search query.
• Search center is used to show the search results.
• In Search center, there are several pages and they are called search verticals.
• We can customize the search vertical, as we need. The default search verticals in SharePoint online are given below-
  
  
• People
• Conversation
• Videos
  
  
• We can customize the search result, as we need.
• SharePoint provides lots of options to customize the search results. We can integrate with open search engines and remote SharePoint Exchanges.

Now, we are going to see how we integrate Bing search engine results with SharePoint search results.

Steps to Integrate the Bing search Results

To show Bing results with SharePoint search results, first we need to create the two things, given below-

1. Create new SharePoint Search Result source.
2. Create new Search Query Rule.

Let us see how to create New Result Source and New Query rule.

New Result Source

Follow the steps, listed below, to create new search result source in SharePoint Site-

Step 1 - Open SharePoint site, where you need to integrate Bing results.


Step 2 - Select "Site settings" from gear menu, as shown below-


Step 3 - On “Site Settings” page, click “Search Result Source” under site collection administration.



Step 4 - You will navigate to “Manage Result Source page” as shown in below



Step 5 - Then click “Create New Result Source” on Manage Result source page



Step 6 - On “Manage Result Source” page, provide the values, given below in the respective fields-

• Name - Name of the result source.
• Description – Description of the result source.
• Protocol – For Bing results, we need to select “OPEN SEARCH 1.0/1.1” (OpenSearch 1.0/1.1 is used to show the results from search engine).
• Type – Select SharePoint Search Results
• Query Transform - {searchTerms}
• Source URL : http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}&format=rss&Market=en-us
• Credential Information : Anonymous (by default, it selects anonymous options and options are disabled).