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 Searchlight
 ===========
 
-To provide advanced and scalable search across multi-tenant cloud resources
+The Searchlight project provides indexing and search capabilities across
+Openstack resources. Its goal is to achieve high performance and flexible
+querying combined with near real-time indexing.
+
+Use the following resources to learn more:
+
+* `Official Searchlight documentation * <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/searchlight/>`_