Difference between classic and modern search experience in SharePoint Online

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This SharePoint Online tutorial explains, classic vs modern SharePoint search experience. We will discuss what are the key difference between the classic search experience and modern search experience in SharePoint Online Office 365.

SharePoint online contains two type of search in it.

  1. SharePoint Classic search experience
  2. SharePoint Modern search experience

If you are new to SharePoint Online modern experience you can read below SharePoint Online modern experience tutorials:

Classic vs modern SharePoint search experience Difference

Now we will see some main difference between classic search experience and Modern search experience in SharePoint Online Office 365.

Both the SharePoint Classic search experience and modern search experience uses the same search index to find the result in the SharePoint online.

We will see the Modern search experience in the SharePoint modern team site, hub site, and communication site but it will not appear in the SharePoint on-premise.

The classic search experience we will see in the SharePoint on-premise, publishing site, and classic team sites.

We can build the classic search result in the web part page in SharePoint. But we could not build the modern search result in a SharePoint web part page.

One more thing we can not customize the modern search result page or we can not create a new search result page in the SharePoint site.

The modern search will see the personalized result that means for every one result is not same, what you see the result that is not same for the other even if both are typed same keyword. You can able to see the result before you type the full sentence typing.

For the modern search settings, there are separate search settings, some of the classic search settings applied for the modern search. For example as both the modern search experience and classic search experience using search index to finding the result. So the search scheme (this is to collect the content and retrieved from the search box) will applied to both the search experience. Only the search administrator customize the classic search experience and it will reflects on the some aspects of modern search experience.

In the above SharePoint tutorial, we discussed some of the differences between the SharePoint Online modern search experience and classic search experience.

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