Search (formerly Locator)
Search is an enterprise search engine
An enterprise search engine is a search engine typically used by an organization to make data stored within the organization searchable for their staff and/or clients. This is different from for instance an Internet search engine used to search for information on the Internet.
Search has a large number of enterprise connectors
A connector is a software component that specializes in retrieving data from a specific type of a data source. For instance, an Exchange connector is a connector used to retrieve emails from Exchange email servers. See Enterprise Connectors for more information.
Search can handle a large number of data formats
Search uses converters to transform data from the data’s original format (for instance a pdf or a word document) to pure text before processing the data further.
Search is made up of the Search and the Search UI
Search opens result in the source application
Most search results are opened in the brower, but some search result like from Outlook require the Content Handler installed on the PC.