The "Search" facility on iTunes is ridiculously inadeqate !!!

The iTunes Store has expanded in leaps and bounds but the "Search" facility has remained the same squatty little box where you can't find exactly what you are looking for and the "Results" display cuts off the end of the results !
What we need are proper advanced search facilities to cope with the size of the content now on the store !!!

There is no power search for my own library, as far as I can tell. And the local search is easier to trip up with trivial mismatches than the store search.
lovin' vs loving
and vs &
can't vs cant
Dooo vs doo
Jim vs James
Beetles vs Beatles
stop! vs stop, vs stop
de franco vs defranco
4 seasons vs four seasons
And for some reason it doesn't like extraneous commas locally, but will take 'em in a store search. For example, copy-n-past this from some website into search in the itunes store...
beatles, yellow submarine
...and get predictable results. Do that locally and you'll get nothing because it doesn't like the comma.
In short, in the 21st century you'd want a music library and store to have a music-specific search that is not easily tripped up by trivial mismatches, misspellings, abbreviations, punctuation and nicknames. Finding, say, which album contains a track I want, is easier on amazon than on itunes, just like using google to find things in wikipedia is easier than using the wiki search. And if an itunes search comes up empty, I copy-n-paste the search into amazon to see if what I'm looking for really isn't available or if I typed something trivially wrong. It's usually the latter.

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In applescript...
In another app - I have copied a song title to the clipboard...
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Q: Now - How Can I Set the Search Field in iTunes to
the clipboard contents?
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