searchable

adjective

search·​able ˈsər-chə-bəl 

: capable of being searched or of being found by searching

Some departments have created slick, professional sites packed full of daily alerts and searchable collections of their reports going back years.

—Clive Thompson, New York Times Magazine, 3 Dec. 2006

… an index to the searchable words or phrases in each record in a database.

—Carol Tenopir, 60 Principles and Applications of Information Science, 1989

searchability

ˌsər-chə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun

Although they look more like "real" journals, the trade-off with image files is the loss of searchability that … text provides.

—Carol Tenopir, Library Journal, 1 Apr. 1994

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