Searches are made by simply filling in fields in a query form, which allows users to focus on what they are looking for according to a variety of parameters, including directory, subject, author, date, and file type. Because the query forms are created using open industry standards such as HTML, they can be easily customized to meet the needs of any site and can be used from any Web browser. Network administrators and Webmasters, as well as end users, benefit from Microsoft Index Server features. Users can search for a set of words or phrases, or even a complete sentence. Query by properties.
Users can search for properties stored on files such as author, subject, file size, and date.
Users can search with wildcards, regular expression matching, and linguistic stemming to find all tenses of a verb. Customizable query forms. Webmasters can predefine popular queries, and create custom searches and results pages. Index server automatically updates when documents are changed, added, or deleted. Users are only shown documents that they have permission to view.