SmartSearch is pretty good at figuring out what you are looking for, but you can help it work better for you by following these guidelines:
- Keep your searches short and sweet. SmartSearch has to try to figure out what part of your search is a year, what is a make etc. The more words you use, the more chances it has to get something wrong.
- Example of a bad search: “a big yellow bus from the year 2009 with
about 70 or so seats” - Example of a good search: “2009 70 passenger school bus”
- Example of a bad search: “a big yellow bus from the year 2009 with
- By default, SmartSearch will set the year range to 2 years earlier and later than what you specified. You can specify a specific year range by separating the years with a hyphen, like “2001-2007 international bus”.
- Sometimes you want to search for something we don’t have a specific search field for, like a 4×4 bus. This is what the “additional keywords” search field is intended to help you do. When using SmartSearch, anything you type after “with” will be searched as a keyword if it can’t be recognized as anything else. SmartSearch will also use your terms as keywords if it can’t understand them any other way. So if you’re looking for a four wheel drive school bus, you could try searching “school bus with 4×4.”
