This topic describes the file search feature, which helps you quickly find specific files in large volumes of data.
Basic search capabilities
Combined search
Combined search lets you use both file name search and full-text search simultaneously.
File name search
File name search lets you search by file name or file name keyword.
Filter search results by space, file type, file size, update time, and updater.
Full-text search
This is a value-added feature. It is available free of charge during the public beta. To use this feature, Contact us to enable it.
Full-text search works by matching whole words. If you enter a single character or an incomplete word, you may not find the file you expect.
Search method
Full-text search lets you search by file content.
Filter search results by space, file size, update time, and updater.
Search limitations
Supported document formats
Text files | Spreadsheet files | Presentation files |
doc, docx, txt, pdf | xls, xlsx | ppt, pptx |
Document size
The system indexes and searches only the first 2 MB of plain text content in a file. Content beyond this limit is not searchable.
Content
This feature supports Chinese and simple English. Other languages, such as Japanese, Korean, or German, are not indexed or searchable.
Text within images in files like PDFs and Word documents is not searchable.
Illegal or non-compliant content is not searchable.
Characters
The following are not supported as search keywords:
Special characters | Chinese stop words | English stop words |
_=?'|"(){}[]<>*#&^$@!~:;+/\《》—－，。、：；！·“”）（【】［］● | 也, 了, 仍, 从, 以, 使, 则, 却, 又, 及, 对, 就, 并, 很, 或, 把, 是, 的, 着, 给, 而, 被, 让, 在, 还, 比, 等, 当, 与, 于, 但 | a, an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by, for, if, in, into, is, it, no, not, of, on, or, such, that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to, was, will, with |
Semantic search (Beta)
This feature is available only in the China (Beijing) and Singapore regions.
Enable the feature
Log on to the enterprise drive as an administrator. In the admin console, go to Enterprise Settings > AI Toolset and enable Semantic Search.
Semantic search for documents
To quickly find documents in your drive that closely match the search intent, enter a natural-language sentence, such as "Find a research paper on sustainable development" or "Find some documents about cloud computing security."
Supported language: Chinese.
Filter search results by file type, file size, update time, and updater.
Supported document types: doc, docx, pdf.
Semantic search for images
To quickly find images that match your query, enter a keyword or phrase, such as "food", "cat", "scenery", "a cat wearing a hat", or "a cat sitting by the window at sunset".
Supported language: Chinese.
Filter search results by Space, file type, file size, update time, and updater.
Supported image types include: jpg, jpeg, bmp, png, gif, heic, webp, tiff, tif, livp.
Semantic search for audio
Find audio files that contain specific keywords by entering a word or phrase, such as "success and failure" or "the meaning of travel." Matching segments are marked on the audio player's progress bar, and the keywords are highlighted in the transcript.
Supported language: Chinese.
Filter search results by file type, file size, update time, and updater.
Supported audio types include: mp3, wav, amr, m4a, wma, aac, 3gpp, ogg, mid, aif, flac, ra, mp2, ram, ac3, ape.
Semantic search for videos
Find videos that contain specific keywords by entering a word or phrase, such as "how to create a team" or "enterprise drive tutorial." Matching segments are marked on the video player's progress bar, and all matching clips are displayed.
Supported language: Chinese.
Filter search results by space, file type, file size, update time, and updater.
Supported video types include: mp4, mov, ts, avi, mts, flv, mpg, 3gp, wmv, mkv, rmvb, vob, f4v, rm, m2ts, m4v, mpeg, asf, wmz, webm, wm, pmp, mpga, dv.
