SP2010 Search Primer
Find the Search Administration Console (from central admin)
- Select service applications
- Select the search service application.
Find and set Crawl Rules
- Crawl rules are located here
- Crawl Rules can be used to Include or Exclude. In the following example, there are three rules, used as filters (to exclude):
Force an incremental or full crawl
- This can be a bit tricky to find. Select Crawl Sources
- There should be only one content source present, unless you have set up others. Click the dropdown next to it – you’ll see options to crawl (which will be grayed out if a crawl is presently running):