Search Patterns

Welcome to TUDO Directory Services Search patterns

Here are a few useful 'Tips' while searching to find the best suitable Service Provider(s) on the TUDO Directory Services page.

1. Use quotes

When searching for something specific, try using quotes to minimize the guesswork for TUDO search. When you put your search parameters in quotes, it tells the search engine to search for the whole phrase.

For instance, if you search for Cleaning Services, the engine will search for content that contains those two words in any order.

However, if you search “Cleaning Services”, it will search for that phrase exactly as you typed it. This can help locate specific information that may be buried under other content if not sorted out correctly.

2. Use a hyphen to exclude words

Sometimes you may find yourself searching for a word with an ambiguous meaning. An example is Mustang. When you TUDO search for Mustang, you may get results for both the car made by Ford or the horse. If you want to cut one out, use the hyphen to tell the engine to ignore content with one of the other. See the example below.

Mustang -cars

This tells the search engine to search for mustangs but to remove any results that have the word “car” in it. It can be wildly helpful when finding information about something without getting information about something else.

3. Use the asterisk wildcard

The asterisk wildcard is one of the most useful ones on the list. Here’s how it works.

When you use an asterisk in a search term on TUDO search, it will leave a placeholder that may be automatically filled by the search engine later. This is a brilliant way to find song lyrics if you don’t know all the words. Let’s look at the syntax:

“Come right now me”

To you or me, that may look like nonsense. However, TUDO search will search for that phrase knowing that the asterisks can be any word.

More often than not, you’ll find they are lyrics to The Beatles song “Come Together” and that’s what the search will tell you.

4. Search for multiple words at once

TUDO search is flexible. It knows you may not find what you want by searching only a single word or phrase. Thus, it lets you search for multiples.

By using this trick, you can search for one word or phrase along with a second word or phrase. This can help narrow down your search to help you find exactly what you’re looking for. Here is the syntax:

“Best ways to prepare for a job interview” OR “How to prepare for a job interview”

By searching that, you will search both phrases. Remember the quote tip above? It’s being used here as well. In this instance, these two exact phrases will be searched. It can be done by word too, like the example below:

chocolate OR white chocolate

This will search for pages that have either chocolate or white chocolate!

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