Guano Home page

The home page provides the basic search for that you can use to find businesses listed on Guano. Any keywords entered are matched against all information about the listing by default, but you can limit these to products and services or the business's name with the 'Advanced search' link next to the 'Search' button.

Using the search results

If Guano is able to find listings that match the keywords you have entered it will display 8 results per page, with links to the other pages at the top and bottom of the list of results. Click on the name of the business to display its listing. The listing contains more information about the business, a list of comments made by customers and the business's rating.

Refining search results

Guano contains hundreds of thousands of listings, so it is likely that you will need to narrow your search to remove unnecessary listings. After entering keywords that have returned a search result, Guano will display a set of check boxes under the search field that can be used to reduce the number of results. These options are: Location (both city and suburb), and opening hours. Guano displays the number of businesses in the results for which the option is applicable. To refine the search, select one of the options and click 'Refine search'. Note that options are not always present. They are not shown if they will not help to refine your search.

Refining your search results by location

If the search returns results that are in different cities, Guano will display a list of 5 cities in the result, along with the number of results in that city. If all of the businesses returned are in the same city, or you have selected a city already, Guano will display the list of suburbs instead.

Refining your search by opening hours

This option allows you to limit the results based on your availability. Note that businesses can fit into more than one of these categories. Also, the search results list shows whether or not a business is currently open, based on the opening hours that the operator has entered for the listing.

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