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I would suspect advanced search boils down to advancifying your search term with specific properties about that term, or even the term itself with specifying logic operators.

A filter would be not targeting a specific term, and would take no search terms, but would allow them to find the specific item they're wanting.

Intuitively, filters seem far superior to advanced search, as long as your search is good for one off items. I haven't ever really thought about this explicitly but now that I do, I always reach for:

1. very solid search for single items 2. very good filters



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