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

Oracle SES provides the capability of searching multiple Oracle SES instances with their own document repositories and indexes. It provides a unified framework to search the different document repositories that are crawled, indexed, and maintained separately. A federation broker calls the federation endpoint to collect content matching the search criteria for the sources managed at that endpoint.

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, Oracle Calendar repositories, Oracle Content Database repositories, or user-defined sources.