I like the new search too. It appears that the main complaint is not being able to find exactly what one is looking for. It seems obvious to me that if you don't find it it's not there. It is, indeed, like Google. At Google you enter your search terms and get a gazillion results. If what you are looking for is not in the top results you know that you need to refine your search terms. In the case of the new Bookshare search, though, it appears that titles and authors are given the highest weight and there are combo boxes right there at the top of the results to refine your search in that particular direction if you want.
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I like the new search. I put the input like this "authors first name+authors last name" and it works fine. I used it to search for books on plus size ladies in the stories like this "plus size" and got 28 books. I had tried to get this with the old search and found two or three books. I also found an exercise book for large women. Hey, half of all women are over size 12. I also used the "word+word+etc" to get title of a single book. I think the system needs a little work, but it is getting better. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:44 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My Search Experiences, WAS: Re: Re: Modify Search Boxyikes on the new searchHi Sue S.!I liked the old way of searching better too because of getting no results if there were none to get.Debby At 06:04 PM 1/16/2010, siss52 wrote--=======AVGMAIL-5F167ABB======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It seems to me that the search engine was better like it was. I couldsearch for a particular title, and if it was not in the collection, I justdid 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 PMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] My Search Experiences, WAS: Re: Re: Modify SearchBoxyikes 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 typingthat 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 searchresults. 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 authorbut Donald R. Gallo, so does that mean that those are the only books in thecollection 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?> >-- >Jamie in Michigan >>Currently Reading: The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by >Gil>McNeil > >Earn cash for answering trivia questions every 3 hours: ><http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/49497>http://inst antcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/49497 > >See everything I've read this year at: ><http://www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html>www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.144/2625 - Release Date: >01/15/10 13:35:00 -- mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> --Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. 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