You can turn on the keyword search from the Admin panel’s "Search & Location / Search" page. Under “Search type”, you’ll find an option where you can choose keyword search, location search, or both. To have both keyword and location search, you have to enable the new top bar design.

Sharetribe's keyword search finds from the following fields (in order of preference):

When a user performs a search, we sort the results based on their relevance to that specific search term. We use our own algorithm to decide the relevance. Listings that have the keyword in the title have more weight than listings that have it in the description, and so on.

The search box does not find only exact matches: instead finds listings that match at least partially and then sorts them by relevance. Stricter search results can be achieved with listing fields and filters.

You can change this text from the Admin panel. Go to the "Search & Location / Search" page and edit the "Search help text" section.

Yes. You can turn on the option "Keyword and location search" search type. Make sure you've enabled the new top bar design – otherwise, the option "Keyword and location search" will not be available.