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Help with Searching Product Listings

This search does not search invite-only product listings. For those, you will need to search product listings by seller.

Basics and Character Sets

Unicode characters are searchable.
Search cannot do quotes or strings of words because it's rather difficult to design a search index using those and it is very resource intensive.
Search is case-insensitive, including with unicode characters.
When searching apostrophes are filtered out and words combined together both for keywords and when searching. This is so words with apostrophes come up in search.
The minimum word size is two characters (not bytes) and maximum word size is about sixty bytes (not characters). Outside of this range, the word is neither indexed nor searched for. Note that bytes and characters are different as fancy utf8 unicode symbols generally are 2-3 bytes, with 4 bytes in very rare circumstances.
If you search for either < or >, they are replaced with similar Unicode characters, 〈 and 〉 as what you are then searching for.
Search is set to ignore words inside the < and > of (X)HTML code, so if a seller has broken (X)HTML code with respect to the < and > tags (broken in other ways still works) then search will not work. Sellers should not use raw < and > for those symbols as it could mess up their ability to be indexed in search. Instead, they should use proper XHTML code and use the html entities < and > instead.
If a listing uses a language like Chinese, all the characters need to be put together as one word and one line to be searchable as a group, or search can only find them by individual character. If a seller wants to make them flow vertically and still be searchable, the listing will need to use some XHTML code to make them flow vertically.
In unicode, there are Chinese duplicates of all normal letters. These are changed into normal letters in the search index and when searching.

How things are indexed and ranked
Search sorts things based on word order in the documents. Searching puts the title and description together and ranks it based on the earlier the word appears in the listing as well as which word the searcher puts earlier when searching. If two listings have the exact same words, then they which one appears earliest will be a random order.

Searching caches previous results so there may be a delay for new results when you search for something that someone else recently searched for.

Searching for Listings that Pay You Money
If you are looking for listing offering to pay someone money, such as offering employment then you should put in the money amount you are offering. You can search based on a minimum and maximum field so if you are looking for something that pays €20 an hour, you put the maximum top amount in at the hundreds of dollars so €40,000 a year doesn't get mixed in and if you are looking for €40,000 a year then you would put a minimum in the thousands so you don't get it mixed up with hourly wages. Employment offers probably will just put an email to contact and not accept any offers through the offer system. You of course would search in whatever currency you are comfortable with.

Non-searchable characters
Search filters out the characters below both in the search index and when you search. All of these characters end up separating words when you search; notice the spacebar character is there as that is normally how people separate words when they search.

General Punctuation (U+2000-206F) -- this includes the unicode characters that make text reverse direction
Supplemental Punctuation (U+E000-E0FF)
CJK Compatibility Forms (FE30-FE4F)
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (3000-303F)
A few select things in Latin1 unicode character set. Hex values are 00A1, 00AB, 00BB, 00BF and how they look are ¡ « » ¿
Normal ASCII:
32 = spacebar
33 = !
34 = "
40 = (
41 = )
42 = *
44 = ,
45 = - since this can sometimes separate words
46 = .
47 = /
58 = :
59 = ;
62 = >
63 = ?
91 = [
92 = \
93 = ]
95 = _
96 = `
123 = {
125 = }

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Anonymous 2009-12-29(Tue)00:33:44 UTC. No.290 [Reply]

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Anonymous 2010-01-20(Wed)06:03:16 UTC. No.291

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Anonymous 2009-09-30(Wed)19:11:54 UTC. No.254 [Reply]

Ever notice how you don't see Obama and Osama in the same place at once?

DUDE! I THINK THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON!

Prove me wrong!

Gx.cg!mX&YkOU/$~y)fw52`G6 2010-03-11(Thu)23:30:32 UTC. No.296

But... you never see ME and Obama and Osama in the same place at once EITHER.... that must mean...

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)17:20:57 UTC. No.288 [Reply]

Who here is a fan of the Twilight series?

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)18:38:06 UTC. No.289

Oh yeah it's the best!

9`CutBM3.infJ0;NX|f@P-G(1 2010-01-28(Thu)16:37:34 UTC. No.295

#%);5PzmIW63y+!/w9yE,2X4S- 2010-01-28(Thu)16:36:52 UTC. No.294 [Reply]

Anonymous 2010-01-23(Sat)19:47:44 UTC. No.293 [Reply]

At the end of the tax year, the IRS office sent an inspector to audit the books of a local hospital. While the IRS agent was checking the books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too little left to be of any use?"

"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to the bandage company and every now and then they send us a free box of bandages."

"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.

"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left over after setting a cast on a patient?"

"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question . "We save it and send it back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of plaster."

"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"

"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick."

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Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:10:16 UTC. No.17 [Reply]

The Ballad of Agent Pubeit

Brave Agent Pubeit, Agent Pubeit was very brave
Watch ye friends and ye shall see that he will win the day
Deep underground with stone and trains, Vaseline was applied
We handed him pubes, so many pubes, so he may complete his guise
The path to victory and win, paved with pubes accumulated
from the anonymous horde they came to him, fail he could not afford
the various pubes they stuck to him from the Vaseline he put on before

Brave Agent Pubeit came up from underground
Covered in Vaseline and pubes, he emerged proud
40 degrees in the streets, the streets
here's where we got the call,
Agent Pubeit the brave was on his way, free of delays and stalls
verily he traveled on his way, the brave the brave the quick
to the Church of Scientology to tell them to suck his dick
the many they stared afraid they were for a thing they have not seen
slippery and covered in pubic hair was the way it had to be

Meanwhile back at our the base the attack had already begun
Prank calls and our various faxes would ensure the battle was won
A dozen proud preceded him serving to distract
Incessant and vicious our calls they were, offensive and horrible our fax

BRAVE Agent Pubeit, he was about to arrive
At the Church of Scientology, his target could not hide
Touch everyone and everything once he runs inside
Pubes on their hands as they go to grab the gross slippery pube-covered guy

Brave Agent Pubeit, Agent Pubeit ran away
He knocked over shit and he got our pubes all over the place
He touched three guys and they found out, how slippery one man could be
He spread confusion and our dickhair, with his touch of Vaseline

His mission complete it may seem, but there was more
Three blocks away awaited another Scientology org
The buildings two he strikes at thee, as he has once before
The CLO headquarters did not know what they had in store

Radioed in we attacked our target number two
Let the enemies know that with them, Anonymous was not through
Off the hook their phones rang as we directed our second push
Agent Pubeit will soon come their way and deliver upon them some bush

Brave Agent Pubeit, safely got away
Scientology we strike at thee because you're fucking gay
Your buildings both we hath spread, our agent covered in pubes
Remember this day we have delivered Operation: Slickpubes.

Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:17:15 UTC. No.20

Actually OP, he didn't get away. He and the cameraman got a 10 year prison sentence for hate crimes.

Anonymous 2009-06-18(Thu)20:07:43 UTC. No.182

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Anonymous 2009-08-12(Wed)16:02:19 UTC. No.201

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

Anonymous 2009-08-12(Wed)16:06:55 UTC. No.202

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Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)08:36:32 UTC. No.286

Mods sticky thread!

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)07:14:55 UTC. No.285 [Reply]

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Anonymous 2009-03-05(Thu)20:21:32 UTC. No.3 [Reply]

Can a simple pill really make a man larger?

Discuss.

PS: I don't just mean a certain part of the anatomy, I mean the whole body.

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Anonymous 2009-03-08(Sun)04:01:39 UTC. No.10

>>4
What kind of stupid politically correct term is "little person"? It's more insulting than midget. The proper term is "vertically challenged"!

Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)04:41:13 UTC. No.12

Why not hobbit? Or halfling?

Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:03:53 UTC. No.15

>>12
that's not very politically correct. i agree "vertically challenged" is best.

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)06:38:42 UTC. No.282

In Alice and Wonderland

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)06:39:48 UTC. No.283

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

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Anonymous 2009-07-25(Sat)14:44:19 UTC. No.193 [Reply]

In Saudi Arabia, they had a beauty pagent where all the girls were covered in clothes and veils where you couldn't see them at all and instead of beauty competition, they tested them on their morals.

ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090724/world/saudi_women_beauty_offbeat

Feminists always complain that beauty pagents objectify women. Well the Saudi version actually doesn't.

Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)05:42:08 UTC. No.280

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Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)02:27:14 UTC. No.279 [Reply]

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Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)02:22:06 UTC. No.278 [Reply]

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Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)02:19:48 UTC. No.277 [Reply]

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