search tips

To find information about a topic, simply type in one or more appropriate keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.


Case sensitivity: For overall convenience, our search engine has been configured to ignore capitalization. For example, healing, Healing and HEALING would all return the same results.


Plurals: When appropriate, try both singular and plural versions of your searchword. Searches for Spa and spas, for example, may return some different results.


Variations: You may also want to try some common variations on your searchword, like hike and hiking. You'll often get some different results.


Using + and " " in searches: This search engine uses a proprietary scoring algorithm that does not recognize the use of these characters in searches.


Several special characters can be used to help you to narrow your searches:

Symbol
Translation
Example
Usage
-
FORBID
this term
+healing -school
Will only display listings that contain
the word "healing" and DOES NOT contain the word "school"
*
Match
anything
heal* You can use the asterisk as a "wildcard" to match parts of a word. In our example, the search would return any listing with any word starting with "heal." Note that the "*" can represent at most four letters or numbers, and can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three characters, so a search for "th*" or "an*" would be ignored.


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