Advanced Signal Search

Advanced Signal Search is a type of query allowing users to combine keywords with boolean operators (or modifiers) such as AND, NOT and OR to produce specific and more relevant results.

Every day, HolonIQ's proprietary search engines pull hundreds of thousands of Signals (news, press releases, wires, blogs) from over 50,000 sources. Advanced Signal Search is often required to get the precise signals you are looking for in your research.

Use Cases

Customers use Advanced Signal Search for the following use cases

• Brand and Reputation Management/Monitoring

• Competitor and Brand Tracking

• Emerging and Key Issue Tracking

For example, an advanced signal search could be “education” AND “credential”. This would limit the search results to only those signals containing the two keywords.

Search Operators

Advanced Signal Search query supports the following operators:

• + signifies AND criteria

• | signifies OR operation

• - negates a single token

• " wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching

• * at the end of a term signifies a prefix query

• ( and ) signify precedence

• ~N after a word fuzzy matches with maximum of N character changes

• ~N after a phrase signifies how near or close the words can be.

The default operator is OR. This means a search of different words will look for any one of them, not all of them, as default.

Examples