1. Using a computer system with access to electronically retrievable content in digital form, a method of providing content in response to a request, comprising: receiving a request from a user in the form of a search query string; determining if the search query string includes a hint string of one or more characters; if the search query string includes a hint string, parsing the search query string and processing a remainder search query string over one or more subdomains wherein the one or more subdomains are determined from the hint string.