About Our Searches
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Corporate Affiliations provides three search interfaces: the natural language Inquire Search and the form-based Quick Search and Advanced Search.
Instructions for using each are provided below. You can also learn more about entering a Project ID. Help on
Comments, Additional Questions and Feedback is also provided.
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Inquire Search
Inquire Search utilizes a powerful natural language search engine to let you ask the questions you'd really like to ask.
Type in full questions, phrases, or keywords. You can ask follow up questions and conduct comparisons.
For example, here are a few sample questions to get you started:
- "Who has sales $10M or more in NJ"
- "Private companies with over 500 employees"
- "100 of the largest companies in New York, NY"
- "All companies in the airline industry"
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Suggestions for using Inquire Search:
- Don't worry about punctuation and capitalization.
We'll even try to correct typos and spelling.
- Need to ask follow-up questions? Just type in the
additional info you want. No need to restate the whole question -- we'll
remember what you were asking about.
- Watch for our suggestions on follow-up questions.
You'll find them under the search box when your results are displayed.
- Click an underlined column heading to sort by that
column.
- Click the company name to get the full description for
that company.
- Need to see this tips page again? Just click the "Tips" link near the
"Inquire" button and "Reset" link.
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Quick Search
The Quick Search has been implemented as a form-based interface and all you need to do to use it is enter a value into as many of the seven search criteria fields as needed. You must enter a value into at least one field before the search will execute.
All of the search fields are joined together by the 'AND' operator, which means that all of the search criteria entered have to be contained in each record returned.
e.g., Company name = 'PepsiCo' AND City = 'Somers' AND State = 'NY'
If your search returns no records, please consider reducing the number of search fields used. Using the example above, if PepsiCo is in New York but not in Somers, no records will be returned. An important rule of thumb is that using a lesser number of search fields will almost always return more records.
Suggestions for using Quick Search and Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
The key differences between the Quick Search and the Advanced Search interfaces is that the Advanced
Search allows you the ability to search on any four of the 23 available search fields
(Company Name, Outside Service Firm Name, Outside Service Firm Type, Personal Name,
Title/Responsibility, City,State, Zip (if in USA), Country, Product/Brand Name Area Code,
Parent Country, Parent State, # of Employees, Sales/Billing, Ticker Symbol, Stock Exchange, SIC Code,
SIC Keyword, Year Founded, Keyword). You can also use 'AND', 'OR', or 'NOT' between your search criteria.
You only have to enter a value into one search criteria field for the search to execute. If
needed, you can select the same search field with different criteria values.
e.g., State = 'NY' OR State = 'NJ' OR State = 'PA' will return records
for all companies in either New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania
If your search results look skewed, please examine the operators that you have used between
fields.
e.g., State = 'NY' AND Company name = 'PepsiCo' OR State = 'NJ' will return records
for all PepsiCo locations in New York and all companies [not just PepsiCo] in New Jersey You
can use the Keyword search field to search across the entire database.
e.g., Keyword = 'Apple' will return records of companies where 'Apple' is
in the company name, product/brand name or city name [e.g., Apple, Ohio].
Please note that selection of State, Country, Outside Service Firm Type,
Function/Responsibility, Parent Country, Parent State and Stock Exchange will cause the
screen to quickly redraw, providing a hyperlink that, when clicked, will popup a window with available search criteria values.
Suggestions for using Quick Search and Advanced Search
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Suggestions for using Quick Search and Advanced Search
None of the search fields are case sensitive and all of the fields have been implemented so that punctuation between phrase
terms is not required.
e.g., Company name = 'georgia' will return both 'Georgia-Pacific' and 'Georgia Power Co.'
In any of the search criteria fields in which you can directly type a search criteria value
[Note: this excludes those search fields where values are entered through a dropdown or
popup window], you can use the OR operators within each of these fields to further refine
your search.
e.g., Company name = 'IBM' or 'Microsoft' will return records for both IBM and Microsoft
e.g., City = 'New York' or 'Stamford' will return records for all companies within the
database located in either Stamford or New York
Additionally, the search criteria fields in which you can directly type a search criteria
value also support the use of wildcards. The wildcard character is symbolized by the '*'
character and can be used either at the beginning, middle or at the end of a word.
e.g., Company name = 'Pepsi' will not return the record where company name = 'PepsiCo'; you
would need to search company name = 'Pepsi*'
e.g., Product/brand name = '*apple*' will return 'Apple Computers', 'Red Apple
Restaurant' and 'Ocean Spray Cranapple'
For advanced users, you can also use the '!' character within any of the search criteria
fields in which you can directly enter a value. The '!' character must be entered in front
of a search criteria term and it will find words similar to the entered criteria term.
e.g., Company name = '!Pepsi' will return records where company name is 'PepsiCo', 'PepsiCo
International' and 'Pepsi Bottling Group'
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Project ID
The Project ID is never required and is intended for your benefit only,
typically as a billing reference.
It will be included in any search activity summary you request.
To obtain a monthly search activity summary,
please email a request to corporateaffiliations@lexisnexis.com.
You can enter a Project ID before submitting any new search.
Whenever you enter a Project ID, it is also displayed as the default for subsequent searches.
To change the Project ID, modify the form value before you submit a new search.
You can also reset the Project ID (to nothing) if you delete the form value before submitting a new search.
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Comments, Additional Questions and Feedback
Your comments and feedback on the search
interface and its ease of use are welcome. If you have a question or problem that requires
immediate assistance, please contact our Technical Support department at 800-340-3244 (press 4),
between the hours of 9:00AM and 5:00PM EST, or email them at corporateaffiliations@lexisnexis.com.
Feedback on the search interface and its ease of use is extremely welcome. Please use the
Feedback link on the left navigation bar to send us your comments and feedback. If you
would like someone to contact you, please indicate this using the Please Contact dropdown on
the Feedback form and someone will be in contact with you within two business days.
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