Inaccurate Search results in Advanced Soundtracks

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I was doing an Advanced Search: Soundtracks for the song, 'Where or When', written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

This yields no results.



A search of Richard Rodgers' page shows 40 results.



 A search of Lorenz Hart's page shows 42 results.




And, of course, there may be other songwriters who have written a song with this title.

(Why there is a discrepancy between Hart and Rodgers totals, I have yet to ascertain.)
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Hi Graham,

This is intended as the terms 'where', 'when', and 'or' are not indexed in our search feature.


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Interesting.

I never thought of that ...

Thinking about it though, I wonder whether there is some inconsistency in this. There are other titles made of words that, based on what you indicate, I would expect to return 0 results, but instead return numerous titles ...

"If Not For You" - 31,920 titles.
"Let It Be" -  5,272 titles
"The End"  10,571 titles.


 
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Hi Graham,

In your first search, the word 'you' is indexed.
In the second, 'let' is indexed.
And in the third, 'end' is indexed.

Cheers,

Steve
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Again, interesting.

I wonder why the decision was made to index 'let' but not 'where' nor when'.

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