Fw: Re: [Koha-devel] strange search results (fwd)

[Ville Huhtala]

(sorry for this Fw: mess)
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:24:57 +0300
From: Ville Huhtala <address@hidden>
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Subject: Fw: Re: [Koha-devel] strange search results



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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Arensburger <address@hidden>
To: Ville Huhtala <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] strange search results


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Ville Huhtala wrote:
> I searched http://opac.library.org.nz with keyword "guide". However among
> the first 30 results are 6 records where word "guide" does not appear.

        A keyword search looks in a whole lot of places for the keywords
you give it, including title, subtitle, series title, biblio notes and
biblioitem notes, and subjects.
        Not all of these are displayed in the OPAC search results. So if a
book were part of the "Bob's Guides to Pets", you might not see why it was
included.

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Yes, I did check all visible fields - but searies titles and notes are
invisible. I think this is very, very wrong. If I remember right then some
of those notes are for librarian only - and should not be searched. There is
also no reason to hide notes that are made for opac users.

Hiding the series title is also wrong because it makes difficult to uniquely
identify searched works.

(of course someone at Horowhenua should check the search result just to make
sure it is not a bug)

Ville Huhtala