Business Best Sellers: Search Help

Product search matches your query against the title, author, and description of a product. To search all available pages, please go here.

Doing a Product Search is easy. Type in a query (one or more words or phrase describing what you want to locate) in the search box and press the "Enter" key.

The system will look through the product database and list pages that match your query. The most relevant page is listed first. Products may be listed more than once if they are found in more than one category.

Here are some tips to help you with your search.

Case Sensitivity

Searches are case insensitive. The query book or BOOK will return the same result.

Partial words

The product search matches partial words. Therefore, book will also match books or any other word with "book" in it. There is no word stemming.

Default Search

The default search criteria is "and". For a query consisting of more than one word, search results will list products that contain all the words in query.

For example, the query product information will return a list of products that contain the words product and information at least once each in the title, author or description of a product.

Or Search

You can do an "or" search by inserting "or" in between the words of your query. For example, the query product or information will list products that have the either product or information or both in the title, author and description of a product.

Compound Search

"And" and "or" can be mixed in a query. For example, the equivalent logic for the query book product or information is

book and product or information

The equivalent logic for the query book and product or information is

book and and and product or information

Phrase Match

To match a phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes.

For example, the query "simple steps" (with the quotes) will return pages that contain the phrase simple steps with no other words in between.

In contrast, the the query simple steps will return pages in which simple and steps occur any where on the page in any order.

Wild Card Searches

Wild card searches are preformed by including wild card characters in the query. There are two such characters ? and *

The ? is a single character wild card. It matches any character zero or one time only. For example, the query

travel?ed

will match traveled and its alternate travelled.

The * is a multi-character wild card. It matches any character zero or more times. For example, if not sure how "lieutenant" is spelled you could use the query

l*tenant

to search for the word.

Wild card characters are also helpful for matching words whose alternate spelling may contain hyphens. Currently, the * wild card matches up to 10 characters.

Note: Since the product search matches partial words automatically, wild cards are not necessary at the beginning or the end of a word.