Can search results on a specific library be setup to show for Authenticated users, but not Anonymous users?

Question

I have a document library I'd like to:

1. Be accessible for both anonymous and authenticated Users
2. But only be searchable by authenticated users, show up in their results only

So far I haven't really seen a way to accomplish this in SharePoint 2013. Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Per my knowledge, there is no OOB way to achieve it.

As a workaround, I suggest you use different search results pages for Authenticated users and Anonymous users. For Anonymous users' search result page, add a query into the search result web part to exclude the library path. You can have a try.