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Filtering and columns

Describe a search in your own words

Smart Filters turns a sentence into an actual filter set. It does not run a search or return rows: it hands you filters, shows you what it chose and why, and lets you change anything before you apply them. Building the filters costs nothing.

  1. Say what you are looking for

    Write it the way you would say it to a colleague: established Shopify shops in Germany with a big catalogue and no meta descriptions. You do not need to know which column holds which fact.

  2. Read what it chose, and why

    You get back the filters it built, each with the column it used and a plain-English line explaining why it picked that one. This is the step worth your attention: it is where you catch a sentence that was read differently from how you meant it.

  3. Check the coverage warnings

    Each filter shows how well that column is populated, and you are warned when one is thin. A thinly-populated column is not wrong, but it will return far fewer shops than you expect, and knowing that before you apply is the difference between a small answer and a misleading one.

  4. See anything it could not use

    If part of your sentence had no column behind it, that part is listed as dropped rather than quietly ignored. You always know which of your words made it into the filters.

  5. Improve it in another round

    If it is close but not right, refine it instead of starting again. Each round remembers the previous ones, so you can say only in Germany, not Austria and keep everything else you already had.

  6. Apply it to the grid

    Applying loads the filters into the grid exactly as if you had built them by hand. From there they are ordinary filters: edit any one of them, add another, or save the search.

Worth knowing

  • Building filters this way costs no credits. Only the search you then run is metered, exactly as it would be if you had set the filters yourself.
  • It produces filters, never rows. Nothing is charged and nothing is exported until you apply the filters and act on the result.
  • You can also open the boolean form of what it built, if you want to read the logic rather than the description.
  • Ask it something that is not about finding shops and it will say so plainly rather than inventing a filter set.
  • There is a fair-use cap on how many times a day one account can build filters this way. The ordinary filter controls are always available and are never capped.
  • If it is ever unavailable, the grid is unaffected and you can set the same filters by hand.

Next

Build your first filterNarrow eight million shops down to the ones worth contactingCombine filters with and, or and notExpress requirements, alternatives and exclusions in one filter setSave and share a searchGive a search its own link, and come back to exactly the same grid

Try this on the real database

Free trial with the full dataset and every filter, and the allowance resets daily rather than expiring.

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