Glossary

crawl

The process of reading sources and creating the search engine index.

crawler

An Oracle Secure Enterprise Search program that reads sources to create the search engine index.

federated search

A search that is performed by an external entity. It provides a unified query framework to search the different document repositories that are crawled, indexed, and maintained separately. Federated search allows a single query to be run across all indexes. It aggregates the search results to show one result list to the user. User credentials are passed along with the query so that each remote index can authenticate the user against its own document repository.

hitlist

A list of results for a search.

index

An Oracle Secure Enterprise Search structure that is updated after a crawl. It is used to improve performance of searches.

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search administration tool

A tool to manage the search engine, including sources and schedules.

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search application

Application for searching the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search index.

relevance

The level of match of the search results to the search string.

schedule

The frequency with which each source is crawled.

search

The process of querying the search engine.

searchctl

A tool for starting and stopping the search engine.

search metadata

Information about the sources, crawls, and schedules.

secure search

A type of search that only returns results that the user is allowed to view based on access privileges.

seed URL

The starting point for a crawl.

sources

A source of data to be searched. Sources can be Web sites, database tables, files, e-mail, mailing lists, OracleAS Portal page groups, federated sources or user-defined sources.