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What does the technical term "indexing on the server" mean?

sarnagar
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‎04-22-2015 12:45 AM

Does indexing mean forwarding the data?

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jeffland
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‎04-22-2015 12:48 AM

"Indexing" means writing the data you receive into your db on the indexing server. See here for more details.

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