Keyword Search
- Deirdre Pearson
View the sections below to learn more about Keyword Search:
What is Keyword Search?
The Keyword Search feature allows you to enter keywords or phrases into the search bar on the Search page. This powerful tool helps you quickly narrow down your search to find relevant projects or companies.
How do I use Keyword Search?
Type a keyword or phrase into the search bar.
Press enter or click the search icon to the right side of the search bar.
Smart Search vs. Exact Search
Smart Search
By default your search will be a smart search, meaning your search results will include variations of the keyword you searched as well as the exact keyword.
Example: Searching floor will return results that contain floor or variations, such as flooring or floors.
Exact Search
If you want to search for an exact keyword or phrase, enclose the keyword or phrase in quotation marks. This will not include variations of the keyword in your search results
Example: Searching “floor” will return results that contain the exact term floor but none of its variations.
Search Operators
When searching for keywords, you can include the AND or OR operators as well as wildcards to fine tune your search.
NOT and NEAR operators will be coming to Beta Search soon.
AND
All keywords must be present in the results
Example: Searching concrete AND flooring will return results containing both keywords, concrete and flooring.
Note: The default operator for a search is AND. This means a search with multiple keywords, not enclosed in quotation marks, will be treated as though they have an AND operator between then.
Example: Searching concrete flooring will be treated the same as concrete AND flooring.
OR
Includes results with at least one of the keywords.
Example: Searching concrete OR flooring will return results than contain either concrete, flooring, or both.
NOT
Excludes results that contain a keyword.
Example: Searching flooring NOT concrete will return results that only contain flooring and do not contain concrete.
Wildcards
A wildcard is an asterisk that takes the place of one or more characters in a word.
Type in the part of the word that you know and then use an asterisk for the part you want to be variable in your search.
Example: Searching arch* returns results including architect, arches, archts, etc.
Note: You must have at least three characters typed before adding a wildcard.
Search In
The Search In feature allows you to specify which parts of a project you want to search within.
There are three options to search within:
Name
Details
Documents
Name
Searches for keywords within a project’s name.
Details
The default Search In selection that searches for keywords from the following fields that provide details about a project:
Project Name
Project ID
Solicitation #
Status
Sector
Project Type
Building Use (and sub-building uses)
Address (street, city, state)
Description
Trade, Trade Division, and CSI Code
GC Company Name
Documents
Searches for keywords within any of a project’s attached/related documents.
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