Export Search Configuration Settings in SharePoint 2013

Suppose, if you want to move your customized search settings from one site Collection to another, you don't need to set up the entire set up manually. You can easily use the options provided by SharePoint .They are :

Search Configuration Export
Search Configuration Import

The following properties are exported in a xml file

Query rules
Result sources
Result types
Search schema
Ranking model

A sample XML file is placed below

<?xml version="1.0"?>

@namespace html url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); :root { font:small Verdana; font-weight: bold; padding: 2em; padding-left:4em; } * { display: block; padding-left: 2em; } html|style { display: none; } html|span, html|a { display: inline; padding: 0; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; } html|span.block { display: block; } *[html|hidden], span.block[html|hidden] { display: none; } .expand { display: block; } .expand:before { content: '+'; color: red; position: absolute; left: -1em; } .collapse { display: block; } .collapse:before { content: '-'; color: red; position: absolute; left:-1em; } <SearchConfigurationSettings xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Portability" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<DeployToParent>false</DeployToParent>

<DisableInheritanceOnImport>false</DisableInheritanceOnImport>

</SearchQueryConfigurationSettings>

</SearchRankingModelConfigurationSettings>

<d3p1:LastItemName i:nil="true"/>

<d3p1:dictionary xmlns:d4p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>

</Aliases>

<d3p1:LastItemName i:nil="true"/>

<d3p1:dictionary xmlns:d4p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>

<d3p1:TotalCount>0</d3p1:TotalCount>

</ManagedProperties>

<d3p1:LastItemName i:nil="true"/>

<d3p1:dictionary xmlns:d4p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>

</Mappings>

<d3p1:LastItemName i:nil="true"/>

<d3p1:dictionary xmlns:d4p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>

</Overrides>

</SearchSchemaConfigurationSettings>

</SearchConfigurationSettings>