Why is my Ocean.io search finding fewer companies?
The Ocean.io help pages give 4 common reasons. The first to rule out: The keywords filter looks at short terms in descriptions of what a company does, so results depend on how each company is described.
What causes it?
The keywords filter looks at short terms in descriptions of what a company does, so results depend on how each company is described.
In the Ocean.io help:
The Keywords filter considers terms (up to three words long) that appear in descriptions of what a company does.
Keywords Filter, read 2026-11-12.A department filter in a company search keeps only companies with at least one person in those departments.
In the Ocean.io help:
When applied during company search, it returns companies that have at least one person in the chosen departments.
Person Department Filter, read 2026-11-12.Department filters sort people by their job titles, so the results depend on the job titles Ocean.io has for each employee.
In the Ocean.io help:
The categorization is based on the job titles of individual employees.
Person Department Filter, read 2026-11-12.Ocean.io works from public data and may not have every employee of a company listed.
In the Ocean.io help:
Because Ocean.io relies on publicly available data, we may not have every employee listed for every company.
Size (Employees) Filter, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Open a company you expected to see and look at its keywords to check whether your search terms are among them.
In the Ocean.io help:
On the company page, scroll down to view the keywords associated with that company.
Keywords Filter, read 2026-11-12.If you filter on how many people Ocean.io has for a company, look at that number for a company you expected, since it shows the people Ocean.io currently has.
In the Ocean.io help:
This filter shows how many people Ocean.io currently has available and associated with a particular company.
Size (Employees) Filter, read 2026-11-12.
How does Ocean.io work with Feder?
- Connect Ocean.io to Feder and it joins your Interest apps.
- When you connect Ocean.io, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Ocean.io, one of your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Ocean.io.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my Ocean.io export have fewer companies than I expected?Ocean.io
- Why did Ocean.io return fewer emails than contacts?Ocean.io
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Ocean.io help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.