We may explain the listing suggested by ths is nit relecant if ( it’s an example) you ask for 1 dog maximum and the listing says 3 dogs ( a cat when you did not seek cats…)
We’ve been listening to your feedback and keeping a close eye on how Search Plus is performing, and we want to share a roundup of what’s improved recently.
We’ve used the data collected so far to refine how Search Plus understands what you’re looking for. In practice, that means more relevant results for your searches. We’re still in a testing phase so the occasional anomaly may crop up, but these should be noticeably less.
More logical search results
When you search for a place, we now prioritise the most popular destinations first. That means a search for “Spain” will pull up the country you’re looking for, rather than a smaller town or city with a similar name.
Fewer ‘zero-result’ searches
We’ve upgraded the brain behind our search bar. It’s now much better at translating your requests, meaning you won’t get stuck seeing an empty results page by mistake.
Available sits
We had a glitch at launch which meant that your search results accidentally included confirmed or closed applications, now you’ll only see available listings in your search results.
Searching by number of pets
We know this one didn’t land as expected when we launched, thank you for your patience. Searching by the number of pets should now work as intended, giving you more accurate results when you’re looking for sits with a specific number.
One thing worth noting, for pets like fish or chickens, we’ve made a deliberate decision not to count heads. So a search for “7 fish” will return results with any number of fish. For now, we think this gives you the best options.
We still have more to do, please keep sharing your feedback in the app and we’ll share more updates as we go. 
Any feedback for searches for combinations of pets? I’d like to see only listings that include both cats AND horses
Thanks for the question.
I don’t have an update on pet combination searches just yet, but will continue to share news about enhancements as we move forward.
In the meantime, please do keep sharing feedback about Search Plus directly through the app. 
It’s 6 weeks since the last announcement and now 11 weeks since the beta plus search was introduced, what’s happening with it?
Is this ‘search plus’ happening? I don’t see any sign of it.
I would love to search for ‘swimming pool’ but this is currently impossible. It is shocking just how poor the UX/UI of THS (who, after all, are only a tech company) is.
It’s on the App only
Just submitted feedback via app.
We’ve not used this functionality at all, until today’s test. That test was prompt ‘listings in schengen area’ that yielded mostly listings in US, UK and other non-Schengen locations. Unclear of value-add of this functionality.
@Mark_B it’s nearly 3 months since the beta search plus was launched, when can we expect an update? Has it been abandoned?
We’re continuing to monitor how members use Search Plus - so, please keep the feedback coming, it really helps.
Based on everything you’ve told us so far, we feel that there is real value in bringing the best parts of the existing Search with Search Plus together, we’ll be working on that later this year.
Hi @Mark : maybe I missed something, but is there a way to save our advanced searches as favourites (like other searches) at the moment, or do we just need to research every time? Thank you!
@Mark_B i have just started using the search and asked for one week in a particular area, one dog only, no other pets. The search brought up multiple types of pets and more than one dog. I clicked on the ‘not relevant’ wording and sent my feedback.
Is there a particular phrasing that needs to be used to get the correct response?
I’m going to start a cheat sheet to remind myself when I need to use the app and when I need to use my computer. I will start setting up both devices side by side. Then, when I get up at 1am PST to search for the popular sits that disappear in 15 minutes, I will be ready. It should only take away 2 hours of my sleep at night. How much do I pay for this?