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The Confluence search engine is based on Lucene. It begins working as soon as you install Confluence and can build search indices on a wide range of document types: blogs, pages, comments, attachments, etc.

For more information about performing a search on your Confluence content, please see the documentation

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Confluence can search content including pages, blog posts, emails, Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, PDF documents, and more.


As well as using the search box at the top right of every Confluence page, you can also use the 'Search' macro to embed particular search results in a particular page.

For example, here are the results of searching you could use the 'Search' macro to search for the word 'documentation': 

Search Results
documentation
documentation

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Search Results
documentation
documentation