SharePoint 2013 vs. 2010

​I have been asked many times in the past few weeks about the differences between SharePoint 2013 and 2010. A lot of questions in the community on what changed, what has been added or removed, and what features have been enhanced.   TechNet or MSDN do not go into much details of feature comparison, they provide a high level checklist.   There are so many features to cover that can be added to just one post. To this matter, I have decided to put series of blog posts showcasing what I have gathered about SharePoint 2013 while working with in the past year or so. I will start with Search, the most change that Microsoft has undertaken in this versions. Search Search in SharePoint 2013 is most enhanced feature from 2010. FAST Search is now included as part of SharePoint unlike 2010 where we had to have 2 separate products and farms for FAST and SharePoint. Here are the many improvements features of search in 2013 that do not exist in 2010:

1.     Query Throttling: Query throttling is a new feature set which allows throttling of queries in tiers. 2.     Search Portability: This new feature of search portability allows for the transfer of query rules, results sources, result types, schema, and custom ranking models from one place to another.  They can be transferred from and to a tenant, site collection, or site. 3.     Hybrid: Another new feature in SharePoint 2013 allowing you to connect the on-premise SharePoint 2013 deployment with the Office365 content. 4.     Enhance User Experience: The entire SharePoint product, including the search experience, has a new look and feel to the user interface that's clean and simple.  The search experience now has larger previews of PowerPoint and Word documents when hovering over results (requires Office Web Apps).  In same hover panel, you can now see the section headers of Word documents and the slide titles of PowerPoint presentations.  Clicking on these headers and slide titles will take your straight to the right paragraph or slide! 5.     Crawl Freshness Report: The crawl freshness report is a new report that shows the freshness (the average time since the document was last updated and when it was crawled) of the documents that crawl is currently processing.  6.     Query Rule Management: The query rule management UI has been refreshed for improved readability.  Functionality for debugging query rules has been added as well.  You can test out query rules to see which ones are firing.