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Left side: Say what you want Right side: Say whose taste you trust (optional)
Pinpointer shows everything by categories, so you know up front how many matches you'll get. (That's what the number to the right is.)You don't need to know how our categories are structured to go straight to the type of material you're looking for.
Partial typing: If you're looking for, say, landscape paintings, just type in "land", click on the Jump button, and you'll see a list of categories containing those characters.
Drilldown: Whenever a plus sign (+) appears beside a category, it means there are subcategories you can drill down into. To do this, click on the category, then click on More Specific button.
Combining both methods: The best way to use Pinpointer is to use partial typing combined with drilldowns. For example, you might want medical information about the disease of osteomyelitis, but you couldn't possibly know in advance how our categories are structured (and you might not know how to even spell the disease). Just type in a portion of the name, like "osteo", and click on Jump. You'll see "osteomyelitis" among the various other categories that contain the letters "osteo". Then click on the More Specific button, and you'll see that you can choose among symptoms of the disease, its treatment, the genetic factors associated with it, etc.
One of the biggest advantages of Pinpointer is is that you never have to wade through a lot of material that's completely out of synch with your own personal tastes. Just click the white button to Choose a Recommender—for example, a music critic, a musician whose work you enjoy, a savvy record store clerk, or any ordinary person whose judgment you trust. You'll have a wealth of material to choose from, but it will be many times more likely to appeal to your own personal tastes.In our scroller, we present the recommenders in order of their popularity.
In our search results pages, we also show the names of other people and organizations who have recommended each item.
To discover which recommenders best match your own individual tastes, whenever you come across an item you especially like, make a mental note of who recommended it.
Bottom: Get search results (or specify more criteria)
If you want to base your search on multiple criteria, click Add Criteria, then go back and specify others.
Click the big gold Find Matches button to see what matches the criteria you specified.