The phrase "search text" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to text that is being searched, either physically or electronically. For example, "I used the computer's search function to search text within the document."
There's also the Google Search text crawl – search for the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" (no quotes) to check it out.
You can also tap the "Search" icon from the bottom of the iTunes screen, type your search text in the box from the top of the screen.
Textfinder machines, used by the government agency and a few other customers to search text databases, accounted for $8 million.
But the best bit is the search function, which is far smarter than merely entering search text.
Google in fact purchased one of the most advanced companies in the world doing semantic analysis, Applied Semantics, to further its ability to search text for much more than mere words.
It gives me access to a few simple apps: Google search, text messaging, Twitter, a to-do list, some hourly news headlines from CNN ("See a Truck Go Airborne, Fly Over Median," "Dolphin Deaths Alarm Biologists").
But direct searching of pictures or videos (as opposed to the words that people attach to describe them) is much harder than indexing and searching text.
Elop: Searching text is intrinsically easier than searching rich media, such as that provided by Flash.
I like Ngram Viewer because it searches text from publications throughout history.
IR in the sense of searching text documents is closely related to NLP and is often considered a subfield of NLP.
While we searched text notes for all evidence of prediabetes counseling, notes may not document all prediabetes discussions between physicians and patients.
