Searching for keywords in adobe bridgeS

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When I click on ctrl F in bridge and type in a keyword, (for example
clouds), nothing comes up except a message that says ‘no items to display.’

In the last few hours my reading has told me that the problem I've described above is a pesky standing issue with Spotlight and QuickTime and that I must therefore use a work-around instead of waiting like Wilkins Micawber for an improvement in the operating system.
My work-around is to insert, in the "keywords" section of QT7's metadata window, a baseline en dash (commonly known in the innernets as an "underscore", even if it doesn't underscore anything) between the words that I want the computer to regard as phrases during searches, for instance "good_idea" instead of "good idea". Then, when I'm setting up a phrase-search of the QT keywords, I include the baseline en dashes in the search-term so the computer will bring up only those word-strings whose words are separated from each other by the dashes. It works well, and the results are precise.
It's a clunky work-around, because I can't globally tweak my existing metadata in the "keywords" section of every one of my QT files, but at least I can casually do such retrofitting from now onwards whenever I have cause to enter a particular QT file's metadata window. And my work-around still allows a keywords-search to interpret any particular word in a tweaked phrase as a solitary searchable word, such as "idea" in "good_idea".

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