[WEB4LIB] Two steps forward, three steps back

[Drew, Bill]

If your consortium had chosen ALEPH, you would not be having the
problems you see.  ALPEH has its peculiarities but its searching and
indexing for keyword is quite good.

Bill Drew
drewwe at morrisville.edu 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Stacy Pober
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:40 PM
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Two steps forward, three steps back
> 
> 
> Here are some search examples that fail and what Voyager wants to see:
> 
>   Failed basic "Find Keyword" search:  death of a salesman
>   Working version: death and of and a and salesman
>    (User MUST use boolean connectors even though it is explicitly a
>    keyword search)
> 
>   Failed advanced "Find in Keyword Anywhere" search: war and peace
>   Working version: war peace
>     (Using boolean connectors in this search ensures the search
>      will fail)
> 
>   Failed advanced "Find in Title" search: lion, the witch, 
> and the wardrobe
>   Working version: lion, the witch, the wardrobe
>    (Again, system chokes when finding unexpected boolean "and")
> 
>   Failed advanced "Find in Title": kings and desperate men
>   and
>   Failed basic "Find in Title, Exact": kings and desperate men
>   Working version: kings & desperate men
>     (Users must use ampersand if it is part of the title. 
> System does not
>     know how to alias "and" and "&".