Microsoft Indexing Service
Indexing Service is the base search service for file servers and web services that is provided with Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003. Formerly named Index Server for Windows NT 4.0, this search service was originally developed as an adjunct to Internet Information Server (IIS), the Microsoft web server that shipped with the server operating system. It has since been expanded to index documents in the file system as well as web pages.
Indexing Service extracts content from files by means of a software filter and constructs an index to speed up searching. It uses the IFilter interface, which it shares with SharePoint Portal Server.
The Search option in the Start menu uses Indexing Service as do search pages ...
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