A power search is used to retrieve book information using a complex query.
The syntax for a power search is shown below:
- author: ambrose
- author: ambrose and binding: (abridged or large print) and pubdate: after 11-1996
- subject: history and (spain or mexico) and not military and language: spanish
- (subject: marketing and author: kotler) or (publisher: harper and subject: "high technology")
- keywords: "high tech*" and not fiction and pubdate: during 1999
- isbn: 0446394319 or 0306806819 or 1567993850
You can use the following properties of a book in your search:
- Title
- Subject
- Author
- Keyword
- ISBN
- Publisher
- Language
- Publication date (pubdate)
You can use the words and, or, and not to link different parts of a book description. You can also group properties together using parentheses if that seems necessary to convey the precise meaning of your description.
Power Search allows searching against a variety of fields. You can use any combination of the following keywords to match against specific product fields:
- asin:
- author:
- author-exact:
- author-begins:
- keywords:
- keywords-begin:
- language:
- publisher:
- subject:
- subject-words-begin:
- subject-begins:
- title:
- title-words-begin:
- title-begins:
You can combine them with and, or, and not, and you can group them with parentheses.