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The word search feature of the Business Entities and List Business Entities by Agent pages allows for searches by combinations of words or by partial matches. The asterisk (*) is used for wildcard matches, the plus sign (+) is used as an "and" when searching for combinations of words, and the pipe sign (|) is used as an "or" when searching for combinations of words. Examples of using these are given here:

• First of all, please be aware that the name search, without any special qualifications, is looking for an exact match of the word which you enter. For example, entering homeowner will return only a few matches, but entering homeowners (with an "s" at the end) will return a great deal more. Again, this is due to the exact match.
• To ensure you get all possible varieties of the word you are searching for, try using a wildcard search. Continuing our example, try entering homeowner*, and you will get all of the combinations of the word.
• Now, suppose you wish to search for combinations of words, such as "little league", but you only wish to see names which have both words in them. Here, you should use the plus sign between the words, so you would enter little+league.
• On the other hand, suppose you wish to find any names which have either the word "car" or the word "truck" in their name. Here, you would use the "pipe" sign, which is a broken vertical bar which, on most keyboards, is the shifted backslash key right above the enter key and below the backspace key on the right-hand side of the keyboard. So in this case, you would enter car|truck.

• There are an infinite number of combinations which can be derived from using these symbols. Just be sure that the button next to Word is marked before you click on the Search icon. If not, the system will attempt a regular alpha search on the phrase you enter, and you may get some very interesting results.