Tips for searching in Engage

Your search experience improves over time as Engage learns from your activity. These actions directly influence the quality and personalization of your results:

Join communities. Joining relevant communities, and leaving ones you're not interested in, helps search understand what topics matter to you. Results from communities you've joined receive increased weight.

Interact with posts. Liking, replying to, and viewing posts tells search which content and authors are relevant to you. The more you engage, the better your people affinity and community affinity scores become.

Follow people. Following leaders and colleagues is one of the strongest signals for search personalization. Posts from people you follow get a natural ranking boost.

Join relevant communities. Being a member of communities helps search understand your interests and show more relevant content from those communities.

Note: Engage uses the same affinity signals as the home feed. If you've been improving your feed experience by following people and joining communities, your search results also benefit.

Be specific

Instead of “strategy,” try “FY26 company strategy.”
Adding context like dates, team names, or product names helps search find exactly what you need.

Use the tabs

If you’re looking for a person, click the People tab.
If you’re looking for a community, click Communities to focus results on the right content type.

Filter by date

Use the Date filter to narrow results to a specific time period.
Especially useful if you roughly remember when something was posted.

Filter by author

Use the Posted by filter if you remember who posted it. Posted by narrows results to a specific person’s posts.

Filter by community

Use Posted in to limit results to a specific community. This option is helpful when you know where the conversation happened.

Ask Copilot

When you see Ask Copilot in the suggestions dropdown, select it.
You’ll automatically get an AI-generated answer drawn from Engage conversations.

Use search operators

Use AND to require all terms e.g., safety AND store
Use OR to broaden results e.g., hackathon OR innovation
Use AND NOT to exclude terms e.g., hackathon AND NOT 2026
Operators can be combined e.g., (hackathon OR innovation) AND 2025

Use quotes for exact phrases

Use quotemarks to surround a word or phrase that you want searches to exactly match, such as "New York Yankees" or "Posted by Nestor Wilke".

Search by hashtag

If you know the topic or campaign tag (e.g., #CopilotStories), search for it directly.
The Topics tab shows all matching hashtags and their associated threads.