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Finder

A Finder is a scoped search on a single dataset with filters to modify the results.

How it works

Depending on context, “finder” can mean:

The “finder pattern”
The “finder technology”, ie. a product used to generate finders using content-store and finder-frontend)
A specific finder including the content it exposes is sometimes called a “finder” by editors

Finders allow users to easily browse a comprehensive library of similarly formatted specialist documents relating to a particular topic.

Finders help users find a specific document, or set of documents, within a topic.

Finders also help users who need to know when a document is published or updated relating to a specific topic or subtopic.

Complete list of examples available and page data on Content Data (opens in a new tab).

History and insights
Date	Description	Document	Format
July 2024	This document outlines the reasons and benefits to improve specialist finder	Proposal to improve Specialist Finder development and efficiency (opens in a new tab)	Google Docs
May 2024	An analysis led to the recommendataion to Migrate 10 finders to Vertex in order to improve keyword search relevance. Some further analysis is needed before a decision can be made.	Should we move finders to Google Vertex AI Search? (opens in a new tab)	Google Docs

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