Hi everyone here I will describe the search service application in SharePoint 2013.

So first let us see the differences between the SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 search service applications.

SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2013
No PDF iFilter Added PDF iFilter
No Fast Search Builtin Fast Search
No Search analytics Added Search analytics
Create 3 Content DB Create 4 Content DB

Let us begin to configure the search service application using SharePoint 2013. Before that create one domain user and register that user.

Now it's time to add and crawl the content and index the crawled item then make the end user to search their content in the search page.

Now open the new search service application instance to configure the content source.

The following figure can explain for you about the search administration, here the searchable content is zero and the default content access account is Search_admin with the privilege to read the content from the local SharePoint site and UNC.

search administrator Then create an Enterprise or basic search page for search content.