Official Terapeak Blog » search filters http://blog.terapeak.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Advanced Keyword Search Filters http://blog.terapeak.com/2008/09/22/advanced-keyword-search-filters/ http://blog.terapeak.com/2008/09/22/advanced-keyword-search-filters/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:57:48 +0000 terapeak http://blog.terapeak.com/?p=146 We are always listening to customer feedback and we’ve heard some requests for more advanced keyword search options. We’ve recently added a bunch of wild card search options and OR search options. A full list of our supported search filters is as follows.

To search for: Do this: Example
Items where two or more keywords are present Enter the keywords with a space between them new DVD player

searches for items with all three words in the title in any order
Items containing certain words in a particular order Place quotation marks around the group of words, or join them with hyphens “New York” or New-York

searches for items with titles containing New York in that order only, but not those containing just New or just York or the words York New
Items that don’t contain a certain word Place a minus sign immediately before the word to be excluded (no space after the minus sign) shirt blue -wool

searches for items with titles containing the words shirt and blue but not containing the word wool
Items that don’t contain several words Place a minus sign before the list of words separated by commas (with no spaces after the minus sign) and put in parentheses bowl -(black,green,purple) or bowl -black -green -purple

searches for items with titles containing the word bowl but not containing the words black, green, and purple
Items where one word or another is present Enter keywords in parentheses separated by commas (purse,handbag)

searches for items whose titles contain either the word purse or handbag
Items that contain words starting with a particular sequence of letters Enter the letter sequence followed by an asterisk book*

searches for items whose titles contain words starting with book, such as books, bookshelf, and bookmark
Items the contain words that follow a particular pattern Enter the letter sequence with question marks where the letter may vary li?e

searches for items whose titles contain words like like, line, and live
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