Microsoft Search Center and Search Center Lite
April 28, 2009
I read a remarkable article by Robert Bogue of Thor Projects. The piece was “Search Center vs. Search Center Lite” here. I am quite tired after a day of meetings, and I thought “lite” was one of those marketing buzzwords reserved for beer and dietary foods. Wrong. In SharePoint there are two search centers: regular and light. I either did not know or did not remember there were two functions with almost the same name. Mr. Bogue set me straight:
One search center, Search Center Lite — which shows up in the user interface as Search Center, is created by default for you if create a Collaboration Portal. (It’s on /search.) The other search center, Search Center with Tabs, only shows up if you activate the Office SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features.
I thought about this comment and the plunged deeper into the article. I arrived at the moment of truth:
Who cares? Well if you have a set of complex customizations and want people to be able to search in different ways — then you care. Search Center with Tabs uses the publishing features (WCM) in SharePoint to allow you to create your own pages with different search configurations on them.
I think I understand. Depending on choices, one sees different options with the distinction identified as Search Center or Search Center Light. I wonder if there were other user interface options considered? Nifty, eh?
Stephen Arnold, April 28, 2009
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