diff --git a/platform/platform-api/src/com/intellij/ide/SearchTopHitProvider.java b/platform/platform-api/src/com/intellij/ide/SearchTopHitProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0015f224ab7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platform/platform-api/src/com/intellij/ide/SearchTopHitProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2000-2013 JetBrains s.r.o.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.intellij.ide;
+
+import com.intellij.openapi.extensions.ExtensionPointName;
+import com.intellij.util.Consumer;
+
+/**
+ * @author Konstantin Bulenkov
+ */
+public interface SearchTopHitProvider {
+  ExtensionPointName<SearchTopHitProvider> EP_NAME = ExtensionPointName.create("com.intellij.search.topHitProvider");
+
+  void consumeTopHits(String pattern, Consumer<Object> collector);
+}
diff --git a/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensionPoints.xml b/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensionPoints.xml
index 8071398fe478..bd4ff01c6710 100644
--- a/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensionPoints.xml
+++ b/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensionPoints.xml
@@ -193,5 +193,7 @@
     <extensionPoint name="customPortServerManager" interface="org.jetbrains.ide.CustomPortServerManager"/>
 
     <extensionPoint name="colorPickerListenerFactory" interface="com.intellij.ui.ColorPickerListenerFactory"/>
+
+    <extensionPoint name="search.topHitProvider" interface="com.intellij.ide.SearchTopHitProvider"/>
   </extensionPoints>
 </idea-plugin>
diff --git a/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensions.xml b/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensions.xml
index b2b15516ea80..bb3e5ba7ebe4 100644
--- a/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensions.xml
+++ b/platform/platform-resources/src/META-INF/PlatformExtensions.xml
@@ -304,5 +304,6 @@
     <localInspection shortName="InconsistentLineSeparators" bundle="messages.InspectionsBundle" key="inconsistent.line.separators"
                      groupKey="group.names.portability.issues" enabledByDefault="false" level="WARNING"
                      implementationClass="com.intellij.codeStyle.InconsistentLineSeparatorsInspection"/>
+    <search.topHitProvider implementation="com.intellij.platform.DefaultPlatformTopHitProvider"/>
   </extensions>
 </idea-plugin>