Not necessarily, depending on the indexing. I think Carrie mentioned they had to re-index the collection, which took 24 hours, to use the new search. That means the two search mechanisms are not compatible concurrently. Valerie On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Melissa Smith wrote: > They should both be able to search the same database, just search on > different perameters. > > Melissa > > > > Valerie Maples wrote: >> I am with you both, Melissa and Lynnsky! My guess is they would need two >> databases to do that and not want to do double maintenance. >> >> Or, they need to develop an exact match only search for s specified field. >> Still a lot of work to engineer the database search. That is why most >> libraries go commercial, but it costs very big bucks. >> >> Valerie >> >> >> On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Lynn I wrote: >> >> >>> I really like that suggestion--but I'd guess engineering will not feel the >>> same way. *smile* >>> >>> Blessings. >>> >>> Lynnsky >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith >>> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 7:32 PM >>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My Search Experiences, WAS: Re: Re: Modify >>> Search Boxyikes on the new search >>> >>> I'm thinking that perhaps, the quick search should be the original, without >>> the full text search, and, the advanced search can include the full text >>> search. When using the advanced search, you should be able to fill in the >>> criteria you what to search for and it only search on that parameter. I >>> really like the full text search, but see that it gives a lot of results >>> that aren't really relevant to what people are searching for. The advanced >>> search has a box to search on the full text parameter, and I'm thinking that >>> should be the only place the full text search appears. >>> >>> Melissa >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> siss52 wrote: >>> >>>> 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. 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