SharePoint 2007 and 2010 included the option to add scopes to a drop-down list next to search boxes in the sites. This would allow site administrators to create narrowed down search results for specific uses. For instance, a scope could be created to only return items from a specific library.
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has removed the concept of search scopes. Instead, we will need to create a new search results page with a limited search query. In this recipe, we will add a new search results page to our search center to return only images.
Follow these steps to create a new search results page for images:
Navigate to our search center in your preferred web browser.
Click on Site contents from the Settings menu.
Select the Pages library.
From the FILES tab in the ribbon, click on Welcome Page from the New Document drop-down menu as shown in the following screenshot:
Provide a title and URL for the page, for instance,
Images
in the Title and URL fields...