keyword search
Finding by phrase
A keyword search is a method of finding information by entering specific words or phrases into a search engine or database.
The system returns results containing those exact terms: I did a keyword search for "vintage motorcycles".
Keyword searches are fundamental to navigating the internet, library catalogs, and digital archives.
Contrasted with natural language search, which interprets meaning rather than matching specific words.
- keywordsImportant identifying words
- autocompleteSoftware-suggested text completion
- queryRequest for information
- Boolean operatorsSymbols joining truth values
- relevanceState of mattering here
databases · wildcard · synonyms · exact · indexing · natural language processing · stemming · phrases · find · Google · metadata · tokenization · browse · terms · lookup · crawl · tags · ranking
- searchseek, hunt, look, scour, probe
- searchingsearching, rummaging, digging, looking through, finding
- digital researchdata analysis, database, digital libraries, digital archives, preprints
- research skillsresearch skills, research methods, research question, keywords, citations
- searchesseek, hunt, quest, find, locate
- queriesquery, request, inquiry, question, ask
search specificity
keyword searchfuzzy search