Locating where a term set is used in SharePoint using search

Joanne Klein asked on Twitter if there is a way to get all places where a specific term set is used in SharePoint.

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One way would be to iterate all site collections and check if the term set was present in the Hidden Taxonomy List, which stores all used terms on a site collection (and if you have no idea what that is, that’s ok as well).

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Hidden Taxonomy List at /Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx

Another option which is the solution I proposed, is to use search. Of course you need to have read access to the items where the term set is used for it to be 100% accurate as well items using terms from a term set has to be present in the search index.

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