Simple search refers to a type of search that works across multiple field types, such as names of people, names of organizations, addresses, and a combination of these field types. You can use SSA-NAME3 to build a simple search system.

In most situations, based on the type of information you need to search, you can call SSA-NAME3 to create keys that are tailored for use with data such as Person Names, Addresses and Organizations.

In some systems, the data that forms the domain of the search may contain multiple types of fields. You may not know the type of search information. Alternately, you may want to search for some information across multiple field types. In such situations, you can generate generic keys for all person names, organization names, and address that make up the searchable data domain. Applications can use these keys for processing a search across entity types

Some standard populations contain an additional algorithm

Generic_Field

that you can use to create Generic Indexes.