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title: "How Liners search works"
description: "How Liners matches searches to products and keeps sponsored placements separate."
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markdown_url: "https://liners.com/trust/how-search-works.md"
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updated_at: "2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"
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# How Liners search works

How Liners matches searches to products and keeps sponsored placements separate.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Trust center](/trust)
- [How Liners search works](/trust/how-search-works)

## Summary

How Liners matches searches to products and keeps sponsored placements separate.

## Content

## Search matches your query to Liners pages

Liners search uses product names, descriptions, categories, features, countries, and other indexed page text. It may combine word matching with meaning-based matching when that helps find a relevant result.

Search can also recognise close product-name matches. A clear name match may appear as a Top Match.

## People are searchable too

Liners search also covers the people behind African software companies. You can search a person by name or by their product, then open their profile from the results.

Search only shows a person whose product is published and whose profile is public. If Liners hides a person, that person also leaves search.

## Result order

Liners orders search results by relevance to your query. A product with more relevant words or meaning can appear above a product with more general popularity.

The exact method can change as Liners improves search. We do not publish weights or thresholds because that could help people game search results.

## Sponsored results

Paid listing status does not change search order. Sponsored cards use separate paid placements and carry a label.

Other product pages may use different ranking signals. Read [how Liners ranks products](/trust/how-product-ranking-works) for those differences and [how advertising works](/trust/how-ads-work) for paid placements.

## Filters and sorting

Filters narrow the result set by the fields you choose. A selected sort can replace the default relevance order.

Search pages with a query, filter, sort, or later result page may use a separate canonical or noindex rule. This keeps search combinations from creating duplicate public pages.

## Search limits

Search depends on the information Liners has about each product. Missing or stale product data can affect whether a result appears.

You can [suggest a correction](/trust/how-suggestions-work) if a product has the wrong name, category, feature, or country. You can also browse [product alternatives](/trust/how-alternatives-work) when you want products with a similar use case.

## Related pages

- [How Liners ranks products](/trust/how-product-ranking-works): How ranking changes across search, the product directory, category lists, and other product pages.
- [How Liners chooses product alternatives](/trust/how-alternatives-work): How Liners uses product fit and market overlap to suggest useful alternatives.
- [How advertising works on Liners](/trust/how-ads-work): How Liners reviews, labels, schedules, bills, and publishes paid advertisements.

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/trust/how-search-works)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)