[bksvol-discuss] Re: My Search Experiences, WAS: Re: Re: Modify Search Boxyikes on the new search

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:04:51 -0600

It seems to me that the search engine was better like it was.  I could 
search for a particular title, and if it was not in the collection, I just 
did not get any results.  I would rather have it that way than to get 
irrelevant results.

Sue S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:55 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] My Search Experiences, WAS: Re: Re: Modify Search 
Boxyikes on the new search


Hi Jamie and everyone!

I didn't have much time to play with the new search engine last night,
since it was getting late, so I'm back at it for a while today.

I was browsing on ChristianBook.com and wanted to look to see whether
Bookshare had a book I thought looked interesting.

I used the Bookshare Quick Search to search for

"Stories Behind the Traditions and Songs of Easter"

with the quotes.

I got two results.  I was also asked:

Did you mean:
stories behind the best-loved songs of christmas

Showing 1
through
  2 of 2 results

More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
  by
Ace Collins

Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas
  by
Ace Collins

It was nice to see that I only got two results when I searched for that
title in the quick search, the way I used to instead of thousands, so I
decided to try the advanced search.

I searched for "Evans to Betsy" and don't think I used the quotes by typing
that title in the edit box for the title and was shown that book only
instead of hundreds or thousands of unrelated books.

I paged back once just to get at the same starting point in the advanced
search, even though I didn't think I really had to do that, just doing it
for comparison's sake, and decided to try that author, so I typed in Rhys
Bowen and got 15 search results instead of thousands.

Only the last two books out of the fifteen results were by another author
than Rhys Bowen.

Going back and searching on Jamie's example of Gallo gave me 619 search
results.  I didn't change any of the combo boxes to see what would happen.

The relevant books are:

Sixteen
  by
Donald R. Gallo

On the Fringe
  by
Donald R. Gallo

The rest of the 25 books on that first search page were from every author
but Donald R. Gallo, so does that mean that those are the only books in the
collection by him?  I am unfamiliar with the author and his books.

Debby

At 06:16 PM 1/15/2010, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote
>Ok I'm going to try this. I put Gallo into the search box. I got 2,678
>results with The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer as the top result (go 
>figure).
>
>I changed my sort order to By Author instead of By Relevance (since
>obviously relevance is relative since it wasn't relevant to me).
>
>I still got the same number of results (way too many) and now the top book
>is even farther away from what I want, certainly not the author of Gallo.
>
>So I clicked on the authors box and it gives me a list of authors,  but
>not a single one of them has Gallo in the author's name.
>
>I think on the front page there should be a box you check if you want the
>full text search, otherwise you get the same basic search we used to have.
>Or the other way around, check a box to get the same basic search we used
>to have. I don't have time to look through 2,678 results to see if there
>are any books in the collection with an author by the name of Gallo.
>
>I suspect few of us have this kind of time either, which means we're just
>not going to scan books for fear they're already in the collection, or
>we're going to say to heck with it and waste our time scanning a book that
>may be in the collection but how in the heck are we supposed to find it?
>
>--
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