## 12.6 Performing search 

## 12.6.1 Search strategies 

## 12.6.2 Search example 

By now, the content is crawled and indexed with the new configuration, the search configuration is set up, and the new interface components have been added. It is time to perform the search. In this section, we show you how to perform search efficiently by using the enterprise search application and the various configuration and components that we set up earlier. 

A good search strategy is to make an initial search that returns a broad range of items. Then, examine the results and narrow down the search results based on your business requirements. 

In the previous sections, we show how to add components to the enterprise search application for viewing distributions of the results over a range of parameters. These components are interactive, that is, they enable you to drill down and narrow the search result content. As you drill down, also look for the additional terms that are added through query expansion in each subsequent search query. 

To best demonstrate the search strategies that take advantage of the custom fields, facets, and search enhancements created earlier in this chapter, run a few search examples. 

We begin with a search goal: Look for the most relevant Redbooks  that describe email products. 

Let us perform some searches: 

1. Initially, we enter a simple search query as follows: 

email 

Based on the expansion rule that is defined in Figure 12-21 on page 471, the search was expanded to include the term, Lotus . Figure 12-31 on page 480 shows the search result for our example. 

