Pinot provides a d-bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes. this service can then be used via a command-line interface, or through a gtk-based gui that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite web engines, and display and analyze the results.

pinot also provides a xesam interface, which can be used through xesam query language and xesam user language.

this package provides a plugin for the gnome deskbar applet to search for files using pinot.