[WEB4LIB] Re: AltaVista bafflement - "santa fe" "Santa Fe"

[O'Connor, Bonnie]

No - even searching without quotes brings back just the 9 results - which is
a "list of near matches provided by RealNames."  It looks to me as though
AltaVista has a glitch in it this morning...

Incidentally the search statement   Santa Fe poetry   brought up 1.2 million
hits with the Broadside site as the first hit.  This will a good teaching
example to help people understand that software isn't always accurate.

Bonnie O'Connor		
Internet Services Coordinator
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Briscoe Library
University of Texas Health Science Center
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It's the quotation marks. If you search with quotation marks, Alta Vista
searches it exactly as is. If you wanted to get everything, you might do
+santa +fe.

Barbara Stewart
Latin American Cataloger
University of Massachusetts Amherst
stew at library.umass.edu