Abstract: Provided is a distributed search method, an index update method, a system, a server, and a computer device. After receiving a query request from a terminal device forwarded by a query server, at least one of a plurality of proxy servers queries a configuration management server according to attribute information corresponding to the query request to obtain machine information corresponding to the attribute information, and send the query request to at least two engine servers corresponding to the machine information. And after obtaining first query results returned by the at least two engine servers in response to the query request, the at least one proxy server merges at least two of the first query results into a second query result according to a preset rule, and send the second query result to the query server, so that the query server returns the second query result to the terminal device.