You can also type words into the search form in the library application. The library service searches for the words and presents a search results page that contains links that lead to the documents that contain the target words. To launch the library application, type the docsearch command or select the CDE help icon, click on the Front Panel Help icon, then click on the Documentation Library icon. The documentation search service allows you to access only the documents on your documentation server that are registered with the library and that have been indexed. You cannot read or search the internet or all the documents on your computer.
Indexing creates a specially compressed copy of a document or collection of documents.
It is this index that is searched rather than the original documents. This technique provides significant performance benefits. When a phrase you are searching for is found in the index, the documentation search service presents a results page that contains links to select and open the document that contains the search phrase. You can register your own company's HTML documents into the library so that all users can access and search the documents using the library application. Before your documents can be searched, you must create indexes of the documents.