One of the new features of SharePoint 2013 is continuous crawl. You can read about this here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219802(v=office.15).aspx
This feature is supported within SharePoint Online 2013! That is great news. It shows that Microsoft put a lot of effort in creating a top search experience within the online platform.
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I am really sorry but I made a mistake. This feature is not available in SharePoint Online 2013. You can read it here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819291.aspx
My apologies for the mistake.
Authors edit - 30/12/2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cb36484c-0e8f-480e-be88-5daa8bf2d47d#bkmk_ContinuousCrawl
So apparently its supported again :)
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Hi,
Can you please tell me where exactly are the Continuous Crawl settings located in SharePoint Online? The TechNet link only gives information about the on-premise version.
Hi Vardhaman,
You cannot change any settings related to this feature. That's because SPO is a multi tennant environment. The settings are applied to all the customers part of the tennant your SPO is part off.
There seems to confusion regarding crawling in SPO , as it is very different from the crawling in the on prem environment. can you please shed some light on " types of crawling in SPO"
You should check out Chris O'Briens blog: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2013/10/waiting-for-search-crawl-in-office-365.html This is a great quote from it:
“Search crawls occur continuously to make sure that content changes are available through search results as soon as possible. Recently uploaded documents may not immediately be displayed in search results because of the time that's required to process them. SharePoint Online targets between 15 minutes and an hour for the time between upload and availability in search results (also known as index freshness). In cases of heavy environment use, this time can increase to six hours.”
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