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Bitmunk Advanced Searching

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The search terms that you use to do a search are important in determining what search results are returned to you. A good search would consist of an artist's name such as "Shania Twain" or album name such as "Black Hole Sun". A bad search would use a great deal of common words such as "jazz love song". The more terms that you use, the more constrained your search will become. For example: "billy ray sings the blues" will try to find any creative work that contains ALL of those words.

Common words such as 'blues', 'classical', 'about' and 'people' could return tens of thousands of search results. The Bitmunk search process automatically removes the most common search terms and performs a search of the more specific terms in your query.

Keep in mind that a common word for a group of items, such as songs is not the same as a common word for another group of items such as videos. The term 'blues' occurs much more often when describing songs than it does describing television shows, so a common term for an album might not be a common term for a television show.