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Indexing is therefore defined as ‘the process of creating an index’. In computing terms, indexing is the process of creating tables or ‘indexes’ that point to the location of folders, files and other records like emails and contacts on a disk. Most desktop search indexing processes identify the location of resources based on file names, metadata, and sometimes text within a file (called a ‘full-text search’). They then build an index database, or a list of keywords associated with the files, which can then be very quickly scanned by the program to tell you the location of a file or record.