Refine a search from a bad result

A search that sends you junk is fixed from the junk itself. Open the listing you didn’t want, and the app takes you to the search that found it with that listing’s words already on screen.

Open Refine Search from the listing

1. Tap the ⋮ on the bad result

   Frigidaire 30" Gas Rangetop Parts

   $120

   Commerce City, CO · 13.2 mi · 24 min

2. Tap Refine Search

   Frigidaire 30" Gas Rangetop Parts

   $120

   Commerce City, CO · 13.2 mi · 24 min

   Watch

   Research

   Profit Calculator

   Refine Search

   Mark as Spam

   Delete

The dialog that opens belongs to the search that found this listing, not to the listing. Anything you change here changes the search for good.

Tap the words you don’t want

The chips are the words from the listing’s title. Tap one and it goes into Exclude Keywords — from then on, a listing whose title contains that word never reaches you.

Two things you will notice as you tap:

• Your own search words can’t be tapped. Gas and Rangetop are the search term. Excluding them would switch the search off, so the app does not let you.
• A word can only be on one side. Once a word is excluded, the Must Include toggle can’t take it, and the other way round.

The field fills in as you tap, and you can type into it directly — the words are comma-separated, so each one is a single word. parts works. parts only does not.

frigidaire is not the word to exclude, though. Pick the word that made the listing wrong, not the brand of the thing you don’t like. Here that word is parts — it keeps every parts unit out, whoever made it. Excluding frigidaire only keeps out one brand’s parts units, and it also keeps out a working Frigidaire at a price worth flipping.

Must Include: when only some brands are worth your time

Switch the toggle to Must Include and tap words there instead. A listing then has to contain at least one of those words to reach you.

It is a hard filter on the title, so use it where the brand is the whole decision, and see the caution in the first-search tutorial before you turn it on.

All Settings has the rest of the search

Everything that is not keywords lives behind All Settings, top right.

Refine Search

All Settings

the rest of the search is behind here

It opens the price range, Turbo, and the switch that turns the search off without deleting it.

That is the same form you filled in when you created the search. Going back to it is how you fix the other reason a search gets noisy — a price floor that lets in every cheap listing in the county.

Save

The save button appears in the corner as soon as you change something. Tap it and you get Search updated. The next run of the search uses the new rules; the listings already on your Found screen stay where they are.