1) By default it also indexes certain folder on your hard disk
2) You can specify what to index in Control Panel-> Indexing Options
3) No, it starts the search from the first item that was written to the
pst-file to the last item. You cannot reverse this.

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> What exactly gets indexed when I turn this on? Is it my Outlook database
> or
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> messages
> first.