Re: Why do so many people use Amazon and Google?

From: Jack Hall <jhall_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:58:14 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu

Our Innopac catalog suggests turning the search around (giving a clickable link), but only if there are no hits for the name in direct order. For the author search "mark twain", unfortunately, there are such hits as: Mark Twain Memorial Association. The catalog isn't clairvoyant enough to guess whether the user wanted the person or the corporate name, at least not how we have the author search configured.

Jack



At 12:46 PM 6/13/2006, you wrote:
Actually, it's failing because it wasn't searched as "Twain, Mark".

-Ross.


On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Ross Singer wrote:


> I will also bet that they won't understand why their author search fails
> when they type "mark twain".

Jack Hall
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fax: (713) 743-9748 Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 14:03:59 EDT