Select the protocol that will be used to connect to this location: Select Search Index on this Server to show results from ...

Select the protocol that will be used to connect to this location:

Select Search Index on this Server to show results from the index on this server. You can use this to display results from a certain scope (such as Targeted_Best_Bets), results from a vertical search (such as Sales Search), or results from a key in a database (such as Customers).

Select OpenSearch 1.0/1.1 to display results from another search engine that can receive a query by using a URL and return results as structured XML. Use this protocol to search Web sites that support RSS or Atom, or to search remote Search indexes on other farms.