I received a question to one of my blog posts:
“There seems to confusion regarding crawling in SPO , as it is very different from the crawling in the on prem environment. can you please shed some light on types of crawling in SPO”
This made me realize its very hard to find information about search crawls in SharePoint Online. I remembered a great post by Chris O’Brien not that long ago:
http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2013/10/waiting-for-search-crawl-in-office-365.html