Updated: July 11, 2020 (February 21, 2005)
Charts & IllustrationsSearch in Microsoft Products
Many Microsoft products incorporate full-text search technology developed by the Microsoft Search (MS Search) team, but these products have different capabilities, intended uses, and update schedules.
| Microsoft Product | Sources Crawled | Intended Uses | Last Updated | Next Update |
| SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) | File system
Web sites E-mail servers (Exchange, Lotus) SPS Workspaces |
Intranet search aggregated from multiple sources (e.g., intranet Web site, Exchange, Office documents on file shares)
Web site search |
Indexing technology unchanged since SPS 2001; update in SPS 2003 added new languages and sources and changed APIs and management interface | Next version (2006?) might be combined with Content Management Server |
| Windows Indexing Service | File system
Web sites (local, static only) |
Web site search for IIS-based Web sites
File-share search |
Indexing Service 3.0, which ships with Windows 2000 and later (some minor bug fixes |
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