Keywords search script in Bridge with subfolders

From the forums and other research I have realized if you are on a network and tag a photo, a second user can search for the keywords if all the photos are in one main folder. Yet Bridge does not work with finding keywords within subfolders.
Does anyone know if there is a script or if a script can be written to trick Bridge into searching subfolders for keywords when in the root directory?

In the search box do you have a check mark for Search All Subfolders? Will also not find anything in other folders if they are not indexed.

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May be a stupid question.....
We want to have all of our photos stored on one server and then access them remotely and be able to do a keyword search to locate them later.
We did a test with several folders but when we do a keyword search we have to be in the subfolder for Bridge to recognize the keyword.
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We could just have one big folder with all of images loose in there, but that's not the best solution with multiple people putting images in there
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I work in a post facility. All of our assets live on a centralized server. We do a lot of videos with still images of celebrities and have been looking to nail down a solid way of cataloguing and searching our images. I'm trying to find if Bridge is the right solution for a team. Our folder structure looks like this Stock Images > People > Clooney > wenn12345.jpg , wenn12346.jpg etc, etc
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