Tips to find the right product

Quick-Search-in-Alibaba

They came to you in countless numbers, from China to India, red to blue, and brand to non-brand. As a buyer, how can you wrap up your sourcing task fast, find the right product and move down to Starbuck for a sip of coffee?

If you are a buyer sourcing for Malaysia-made portable DVD players, you probably will input a search query in the search box as shown in the following image. What if your product has to be in connection to “Television“?

Using the refined search and pick the related category – “Television“, your search result page will show

• DVD players
• Made from Malaysia
• Television- related category

Uncheck the small search box will return you to the search pages without filtering. Also can try out different filters such as, export markets, business type and contract manufacturing etc.

Alibaba‘s newest search function that can narrow down users’ search results by picking related categories came to spotlight of the B2B website this week.