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Erin Kinney replied on July 16, 2008 21:45 to the problem "poor keyword search results & display" in PBwiki:
I haven't heard if you are working to rectify this particular search glitch. The boss is not happy how the results are displaying, and she is very unhappy with the search as it stands now. She is so dissatisfied that she has me looking at alternative wikis to use instead of our platinum PBWiki. Please tell me you are working on this...-
Erin Kinney replied on July 14, 2008 21:04 to the problem "poor keyword search results & display" in PBwiki:
Thanks for the quick reply.
Searching for ron and getting results that pull words like frontier and pronghorn and iron just doesn't work. If I wanted truncation, I would've used some form of wildcard. Having the search default to truncation is just silly. Getting 213 hits when only 10 are relevant is a disservice. Yes, I could do a phrase search
http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/FindPa... but most people won't know to do that. Also, why isn't it locating 'franscell' in those other 203 hits? Shouldn't the 'any words' search locate ALL words on a page, not just any one of them? It should 'and' the terms and not 'or' them for better search accuracy.
Erin
only librarians like to search
everyone else likes to find -
0ttodog reported a problem in PBwiki on July 14, 2008 20:30:
poor keyword search results & displayWe have two wikis (http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org & http://wiki.wyomingplaces.org ) and the search on both of these is now totally useless. Do a search for 'ron franscell' on the Authors wiki, and you get hits on words like 'frontier' and 'pronghorn'. Non-librarians will never do phrase search. The old search was clunky, but at least we wouldn't get a lot of bad results.
The display of these hundreds of results looks awful, too. They didn't used to look like this. I wonder what happened.
