FindPlus® distributed searching is a new integrated feature of dtSearch Desktop, dtSearch Web, and dtSearch Network that conveniently allows a single search request to span everything from local drives to remote servers. Operating through a single user interface, FindPlus® allows searching of files and other data throughout an organization, without the need to collect the data in a monolithic repository.

For example, a dtSearch Desktop user could add a "FindPlus®-enabled" pre-built dtSearch Web server index to the list of indexes to search. From within the dtSearch Desktop user interface, the user could then just check off the remote index to search along with local indexes.

With dtSearch FindPlus, a single seach request can span multiple local and remote locations.

From the search dialog box, the "indexes to search" selection process would look the same for selecting remote indexes to search as it does for selecting multiple local indexes to search. (See above.) Search results will include documents from both local and remote locations, collectively organized into a single view. (See below.)

FindPlus search results can encompass documents both local and remote, such as this Web page retrieved by the dtSearch Spider.

Technical Note

FindPlus® Distributed Searching uses an XML-based protocol for exchanging and aggregating search information.