Searching metadata?

I am currently using Bridge as my photo management software. Until recently, it was sufficient in terms of keeping track of my photos, but now we're exploding at the seams and need access from several terminals. However, the most important part of Bridge, for us, was utilizing the metadata tags and being able to search with metadata tags.
Is there a way to do this in the Creative Cloud currently? Ultimately, my company needs to be able to access all our stock photos from several places and multiple users. Creative Cloud is the best match for being able to take care of all our needs, but we're missing one crucial part. We could edit descriptions and add the information we're missing, but redudency is something we're trying to avoid.
Thanks!

Is this a feature that could be added sometime in the future? I think Creative Cloud is incredible, but I am really wishing searching metadata was possible.

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