# Search interface overview

What accessing the SureChEMBL landing page, the search interface displays. It allows you to perform different kinds of search.

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| Element                              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Query field                          | <p>A freestyle search field for performing either a simple text search or a more complex Solr query search.<br><br><strong>Note:</strong> <em>See</em> <a href="solr-query-field-names-and-examples"><em>Solr query fields and examples</em></a> <em>for more details on the Solr query fields</em></p> |
| All chemically annotated authorities | A filter for selecting all or only the relevant chemically annotated patent authorities among US Applications, US Granted, EP Applications, EP Granted, JP, WO, CN                                                                                                                                      |
| Patents with small molecules         | An in-house filter based on the work of [Falaguera and Mestres](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00151)                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Specify dates                        | <p>A mechanism for selecting documents based on the publication date.<br><br><strong>Note:</strong> See <a href="date-filter">Date filter</a> for more details on how to restrain the patent search on a time period</p>                                                                                |
| Query assistant                      | <p>An component aiming to support users in writing queries.<br></p><p><strong>Note:</strong> See <a href="query-assistant">Query assistant</a> for more details.</p>                                                                                                                                    |
| Structure search                     | <p>Ketcher, a web-based chemical structure editor.<br><br><strong>Note:</strong> See <a href="../chemical-search">Chemical search</a> for more details on the search by structure</p>                                                                                                                   |

_**Simple text search**_

* Provide the desired search text, and filtering.
* Click on **Search**.\
  The system returns quickly the search results.

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