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Using the Entity Company Search in Explore

Learn how to simplify and expand your searching capability by using Entity Company Search within Explore.

Robert B. avatar
Written by Robert B.
Updated over a month ago

This article will walk through:

Overview

The Entity Company Search is an automatically generated company suggestion based on the text you have typed into Explore. The entity combines the company name, associated social media accounts, stock tickers, and visual content, such as logos, to find all relevant matches of the company.

When to Use an Entity Company Search

The Entity Company Search aims to make it easier to set up Meltwater searches about a company.

Now you only have to type the name of the company you wish to search for, rather than needing multiple ANDs and ORs. In addition, you will see suggestions for companies as we have a huge database of companies loaded and ready for you to search.

Use the Entity Company Search when you are doing a simple, straightforward search. This is also a great place to start if you are new to Meltwater or Boolean searching.

Creating an Entity Company Search

There are three different places you can create an Entity Company Search

In the Universal Search Bar on the Meltwater Homepage

  1. Click Home on the left-hand navigation bar

  2. Navigate to the search bar at the top of the screen

  3. Enter the company name

  4. Under Companies, select the company you are searching for

  5. Your screen will reload and take you to the search results in a keyword search

Through a Keyword Search

  1. To create a simple Company search, click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar

  2. Click Keyword Search

    1. Type your company name in the All of these or At least one textbox, and a populated list of matching suggestions will appear

    2. Select your company name

    3. Click Search

    4. You can adjust the time frame of the results in the date selector on the top right.

    5. When your results load, you can add additional terms to the search boxes

Through the Find Search Bar

  1. From any page in the Meltwater platform, click on the Find search bar at the top of your screen

  2. Enter the company name

  3. Results will automatically populate

  4. Click on the company you want to search for

  5. Your page will reload to the search results for the company you selected

FAQs

How does the Entity Company Search work?

When an entity is loaded and the search is launched, a query is automatically generated that combines the company name, social media handles, stock tickers, and visual content (i.e. company logo) to find all relevant matches of the company.

The Company Entity Search connects the most extensive knowledge graph in the industry—over 14M companies across 194 countries—with the most comprehensive set of owned and earned editorial, social, and broadcast data. This improves search accuracy and provides expert-level search results.. With company search, testing shows that search results are 52% more precise for company names that are also commonly-used words, such as Apple, Square, and Amazon, and additionally include content where the company logo is present, without a text mention.

Please note: this tool is restricted to documents that are in English only. Support for additional languages is currently in development.

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