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

  • From: "Lynn I" <lynnskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:42:34 -0600

I certainly hope so. I found the old search feature much more user friendly
if you were simply trying to locate a specific title, or find out if that
title was already in the collection.

Blessings.

Lynnsky
 

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Search Boxyikes on the new search

Well, your probably right, but, maybe if enough of us agree on this, we can
reach an agreement with them.

Melissa



Lynn I wrote:
> I really like that suggestion--but I'd guess engineering will not feel 
> the same way. *smile*
>
> Blessings.
>
> Lynnsky
>  
>
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> [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. 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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>>>
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