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DX Search Glossary

  • Search service – Compare to a search server. Available as 'local' service for portal running in single-node mode. Remote search service is required for portal cluster environment to allow all nodes of the cluster to equally access the same search service.
  • Search collection – Commonly referred to as a search index. Compare to a database which includes information about the resources that have been made searchable.
  • Content source – Crawler
  • Seedlist – XML representation of resources which the owning application provides to support efficient crawling or collecting of information for processing by the search engine
  • Search scope – User-selectable filters used to focus search on a subset of the information available in the search collections.
  • Search Center – Refers to the default search page and main portlet. This page is wired together with the search box in the standard themes of the Portal.