Hi Marvin
As I understand it, Search quite simply searches through an
internal index of all words in your help system. There is a list of
words you may maintain that folks can't search for. This is called
a "Stop" list.
In my opinion, Google has hindered us as help developers
because users simply want to begin at Search. To me, nothing (and I
do mean NOTHING) beats a well constructed index. So much so, that
in my days of yore, I didn't offer a search capability. Users
THOUGHT I did, but what they got was a well designed index. They
clicked a button labeled Search to get there.
Cheers... Rick