> Keyword Search
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Keyword search is a great way to find caregivers who have specific skills, hobbies, experience, speak a certain language, or attended a specific college. You can also use it to find that caregiver you saw on the site a few days ago and only remember that her name was "Sally J". Here's how it works. |
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Where can I find keyword search? How does keyword search work? Can you tell me more about the advanced features of keyword search? |
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Where can I find Keyword Search? Start by searching for a caregiver on Care.com. When the search results display, you'll notice a "Refine your search" area on the left side of the screen. Within the "General Information" section of this area, you will see the Keyword Search box right above the "Refine Results" button. Enter a keyword and click "Refine Results". When your search results are returned, your search criteria will be highlighted in yellow in the caregiver's profile, making it easy to see exactly where your keywords were matched.  |
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To use keyword search, just enter the keyword that you are looking for and only caregiver's that include that word in their profile will be returned in search results. For example, if you are looking for a caregiver that can play or teach the piano, you might enter "piano" as a keyword. Similarly if you are looking for a caregiver that attended a specific college or university, you might enter the name of the college or university as a keyword. Keyword search will look at the following fields of a caregiver's profile.
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Can you tell me more about the advanced options of keyword search? Our keyword search feature offers many advanced features. These features are described in more detail below.
Your search query can include a single term such as "crafts" or "student" or a multi-word phrase. When searching for a multi-word phrase, be sure to put double quotes around the phrase like this:  Boolean Operators Boolean operators allow terms to be combined through logic operators. They must be ALL CAPS and include:
OR The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used. The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching profile if either of the terms exist in a profile. To search for profiles that contain either "nursing student" or just "nursing" use the query:  or AND The AND operator returns profiles where both terms exist anywhere in the specified fields of a single profile. To search for profiles that contain "nursing student" and "First Aid" use the query:  + The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in the field of a single profile. To search for profiles that must contain "crafts" and may contain "nursing" use the query:  NOT The NOT operator excludes profiles that contain the term after NOT. To search for profiles that contain "nursing student" but not "part time" use the query:  Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results:  Grouping Keyword search supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries. This can be very useful if you want to control the Boolean logic for a query. To search for either "student" or "nursing" and "crafts" use the query:  This eliminates any confusion and makes sure that "crafts" must exist and either term "student" or "nursing" may exist.
Keyword search supports single character wildcard searches within single terms (not within phrase queries). To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol. The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search:  Note: You cannot use the "?" symbol as the first character of a search.
Keyword search supports word variation searches automatically. For example, to search for "craft" or "crafts" you can just use the search:  Words NOT Included in Your Results To improve the quality of your search results, keyword search will automatically ignore certain words from your search. These words include:
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