Advanced search

Once you know how to make a basic quick searches, you might want to try Advanced Searches, which offer numerous options for making your searches more precise and recieving more useful results.

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Common ways to improve your search

Positive searches

Using "AND" between products/words will find pages for both search terms

Eg. playing AND card would give all products with the words playing and card somewhere in their descriptions

Negative searches

Using "NOT" between products/words will find pages that include the first term without the second term.

playing NOT card would give all products with the word playing in but not the word card

"OR" searches--

Using "OR" between products/words will find pages that include either of two search terms

playing OR card would give all products with either (or both) playing or card in them

Phrase searches

Sometimes you'll only want results that include an exact phrase. Simply put quotation marks around your search terms.

"playing card" all products with the phrase "playing card" in.

combining terms

Examples of combining search terms

Positive and Negative

playing AND literacy NOT card all products containing playing and literacy but not card

Phrase and Negative

"playing card" NOT literacy all products with the phrase "playing card" in but not the word literacy

 

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