Abstract: Described are an application search method, apparatus, and terminal. In the method the terminal acquires a search word and converts the search word to a tag in a pre-constructed tag library, where the tag in the tag library corresponds to one category of applications. The terminal queries for applications corresponding to the tag and uses the applications as a search result corresponding to the search word. The apparatus may be implemented in the terminal and may include: an acquiring module, a conversion module, and a query module. In the present disclosure, a search word is converted to a tag in a pre-constructed tag library, and applications are searched for according to the tag.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, server, system, and a storage medium for search term obtaining and recommendation. A tag library is set to include multiple tags, multiple categories, and multiple application keywords stored therein. When it is determined that a received application keyword is a fuzzy keyword, a tag matching the received application keyword is obtained according to the received application keyword. A category corresponding to the matching tag is obtained. Categories are obtained and gathered to find a category from the obtained categories that appears most frequently. A tag corresponding to the category that appears most frequently is found as a recommended search term. As such, when a user has an unclear subjective search purpose, a potential requirement of the user can be excavated, or a user's requirements can be refined, to allow a search result better matching user's intentions to thus improve practicability.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a searching method, comprising: getting searching strings inputted by a user in real time; matching the searching strings with first keywords of a searching keywords hint database and second keywords of a through zone database respectively, wherein the searching keywords hint database includes plural first keywords and the through zone database includes plural second keywords and data corresponding to the second keywords; displaying a predefined number of first keywords and a predefined number of second keywords matched with the searching strings to hint; when any first keyword is chosen, displaying searching result pages matched with the first keyword; when any second keyword is chosen, displaying data matched with the second keyword in through database. The present invention also refers to a searching system and storage medium which can efficiently improve searching efficiency.