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 Internet Information Services 3.0, designed to gather resources … 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 … 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 searching for unindexed files or items. Microsoft suggests that a few hours may be necessary … 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 See more

Windows Search 4.0 (also previously referred to as Windows Live Search, codenamed Casino or OneView) is the successor to the … See more