Lookup within Vlookup - Search more than one cell and use vectors instead of array

sapientsaphead

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Hello there!
I have the following sample setup:

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I am trying to find words from column E in either cell A2 or cell B2 (preferably it would search A2 and if it didn't find anything would then search B2), and input the corresponding word in column F as the Product Type. I am encountering two problems:
1. I can't figure out how to tell it to search within both A2 or B2 or better yet, search A2 and if no results then search B2 as an alternative
2. I can't figure out how to do column E and column F vs. E1:E9 and F1:F9

Here's what I have so far:
=VLOOKUP(LOOKUP(2,1/SEARCH($E$1:$E$9,A2),$E$1:$E$9),E:F,2, FALSE)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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