Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for the … See more

Windows Search builds a local Index of files and non-file items stored on a machine, which allows results to appear more rapidly when users perform searches than when … See more

Users can access the Windows Search index programmatically using managed as well as native code. Native code connects to the index catalog by using a Data Source Object … See more

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 introduced Instant Search in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer.
It offers a superset of the features provided by Windows Desktop Search (WDS), while being API compatible with it. Unlike WDS, it can seamlessly … See more

Windows Search is the successor of the Indexing Service, a content indexing solution originally developed as an optional download for Windows NT 4.0 and See more

Windows Search is implemented as a Windows Service. The search service implements the Windows Search configuration and query APIs and also controls, as well as … See more

Windows Desktop Search, a standalone add-on made available as freeware, is the implementation of Windows Search for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Windows Desktop Search and Windows Search share a … See more