The library has been designed for efficiency and scalability; it can handle multiple collections of documents, with overall size of several Terabytes.

Using the library, several kinds of application can be built, ranging from web search engines to local disk indexing and retrieval, document management systems to specialized indexing and search of multimedia collection.

A typical use of Search could be to build a search engine, to search the web or a Company intranet, with documents spread over the globe.

Tiscali Services Search is light, compact, higly flexible and scalable and can index from a relatively small to a big amount of data.