Search Improvements

**qball** · 15-03-10, 17:05

Hi All

There are a number of hints/tips users can use in order to improve your
search-experience, we have just released several new releases on the search facility -

Did you mean: We introduced a search recommendation for cases where a user might have misspelled a word or our search-engine suggests
a better search term:

Search for ipot, result - Did you mean ipod?

Dropdown search: Any keyword typed into the "Find"-field will result in an immediate search-suggestion of previously searched items. Typing in
"ipod nano" will result in search results containing "ipod" and "nano" (position is irrelevant - it will also show "nano ipod")

Exact search: Typing in a search term in double-quotes will result in an exact result of the whole term.

Single Wildcard search: The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "taken" or "token" you can use the "?" to wildcard single characters.

Search term t?ken, results - taken, token etc.

Multiple Wildcard search: Same as above, but the "*" will replace a number of characters (in the case below a sequence of
characters between the "t" and the "k":

Search term t*k, results - taken, take 2, textbooks etc.

Fuzzy Search: The wildcard "~" will search for a term similar to the word. If you type in "roam~" it will find terms such as "foam", "road" etc.

More advanced Searches: A user wanting to search for "Apple IPod" but not being interested in the touch, would for example use the "-" as a filter criteria:

Search term apple ipod -touch, results - apple ipod, apple ipod nano etc.

Happy searching!

Regards
Cuan

**tinusp** · 14-10-10, 16:50

Why doesn't paid listings show up first when doing a search?

**qball** · 14-10-10, 16:55

Search is for the most relevant item, not the item which has been paid for (when browsing categories).

**spacefinder** · 23-07-11, 08:55

How do we find out what specific items have realised without having to wade through the entire category? There doesn't seem to be that option - is it there - it obviously could be - or is it considered undesirable?

**alloway65** · 02-01-12, 17:40

Searching one's own bought items!!!

Is there a way to easily search one’s own bought items to locate a specific item or items by name?
I had a case this morning where I was looking for certain specific silver medallion purchases and could not remember the Seller.
It took me some time to locate what I was looking for.