Nearly every successful company and product has gone through iterations of improvements. As Justin Refi describes in his recent blog post, we have been diligently working on a major overhaul of our search functionality which we recently released on our site. The following is a helpful guide for users looking to get the most out of our search capability. Please let us know how we can continue to improve our search as we are working continually to provide our users with the best possible experience.

Select what you are searching for: Odds or Articles.

• If you are searching for an Odds Statement, go to “SEARCH FOR” above the search window and click “ODDS.”
• If you are searching for an article or blog, go to “SEARCH FOR” above the search window and click “ARTICLES.”

You may narrow the results of your search by topic, location, content type, and author.

• When searching for Odds you may combine keywords and odds values:
• Try health insurance or accidents 1 in 100,000.
• You may use any of several notations:
• 1 in 100, .01, 1/100, and 99:1 will all give you the same results.
• You may also set an odds range in your search:
• Try 1 in 10 to 1 in 15 or breakfast 1/20 - 1/50.
• There are many easy ways to narrow search results:
• You may narrow or expand the range of odds using the range setter on the top left beneath “Refine Results.”
• You may narrow by topic using the tags in the box beside the search results.

If you click on one of these you get a subset of search results related to that topic. The topic name turns red and if clicked again returns you to the original search, so you may toggle or try additional narrowing paths.If the topical narrowing includes additional subtopics, these will appear in the “Narrow by Topic(s)” box and you may further narrow your search.

• Try this example to see how it works.
• Narrow your search by demographic characteristics:

1. Gender
2. Race
3. Ethnicity
4. Marital Status
5. Educational Attainment
6. Age
7. Income

• Narrow your search by geography: You may narrow by country, region, and states.

1. Although the majority of Odds today on Book of Odds come from US data, there is data from around the world. Indeed, it is our ambition to expand our database internationally since geographic comparisons will prove endlessly fascinating.

For those who wish to navigate the landscape of Odds in a more free-form way, there is the option of Visual Browse. This way of exploring is full of surprises and can be quite addicting.

• If you click on "Visual Browse" a network will appear with a randomly selected node at the center in BOLD BLACK CAPITAL LETTERS.
• If you wish to select your own keyword to begin, you may do so by entering it into the Visual Browse search window at the upper right of the page.
• The central term is surrounded by five white circles, each representing an Odds Statement.

1. If you click on the circle the Odds Statement will appear in the box to the right, keeping a record of your exploration.
2. If you click on the Odds Statement you will get more detail about it, including a visual representation and source information.
3. Each circle is surrounded by terms in blue which are used in the Odds Statement, giving you a sense of its drift.
4. If you click on one of these outer terms it will shift to the center of the network and become a new node for continued exploration and navigation.

We hope these tips will help guide you through our immense database of odds to find what you are looking for. Keep checking back for more changes as we work to improve our search, our site, and our mission of delivering the answer when someone asks, “what are the odds of that?”