My customer asked me whether it's possible to hide search results on the specific site or sites. That moved tome to the linke “Search Visibility” in Site Settings which you can set to allow this web to appear in search results or not.
What I have concerned about this is “Can I optionally set this?” even though it has been cralwed already. I mean after crawled (which is I configured “True” on this and “Start full crawl” job has done), can I just set it False and it will work as I expected? The answer is “YES!!!” (if you don’t crawl again, the answer is NO!!!). I thought it won’t happen cause when the index has crawled, it must be searched but when you crawl again after you set it False, those crawled items will be deleted by gatherer.
Q. How the Search Visibility works?
depends on how to set whether the Indexing Site Content is True or Not.
1) Search Visibility > Indexing Site Content is True
When you do “Start Full Crawl” => it will crawl for this web.
2) Search Visibility > Indexing Site Content is False
When you do “Start Full Crawl” => it won’t crawl for this web.
but if there are crawled indexes, it will delete them.
I’ll show you images about each result.
1) True
Success items: 493, Warnings: 4
2) False (crawled first after set the site to True and again after set it to False)
Success items: 281, Warnings: 216 (497 - 281)
As you can see, the status of Crawled Content Status has changed…
and if you closely look on 2) False image, you can find out the items are deleted.
(Deleted by the gatherer…)
- Refer these pages
1) Plan to crawl content (Office SharePoint Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262926.aspx
2) Security considerations for search (Windows SharePoint Services)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287898.aspx
I didn’t test all menus about it that I don’t know whether it will work same.