1. A method to be executed by a processor in an electronic environment, comprising: generating an attribute index for an object in a network environment; inserting the attribute index into a tag associated with the object, wherein the attribute index indicates the presence, in the object, of a portion of a set of attributes; storing the tag with a plurality of other tags, wherein each tag includes a corresponding attribute index and is associated with a corresponding object; receiving a search query comprising search attributes, wherein the search attributes are included in another portion of the set of attributes; conducting a first search of the attribute index of each of the stored tags for the search attributes; and eliminating a portion of the objects from the first search, wherein the portion of the objects do not include the search attributes.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of attributes include: a credit card number, a credit card number attribute, a phone number attribute, an email addresses attribute, a bank routing number attribute, a social security number attribute, a confidentiality marker attribute, a web site attribute, an executive officers list attribute, a medical condition attribute, a medical diagnoses attribute, a confidential project name attribute, and a salary or compensation attribute.