Agreed. The relevancy weight of the 245 should have a higher relevancy than the subtitle. This is what our customers would expect.

Very much agree with this suggestion and hope that it will be addressed soon.

An exact title match should appear first, even if the search terms do not include the subtitle.

For example, if someone searches for "Not the end of the world", the current search results display "Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet" in the middle of page 4 of the results when searching "All." (Note that the title appears lower in the search results if the patron does a title search.)

Another example: a search for "Worthy" displays "Worthy: how to believe you are enough and transform your life" below the result for "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" - because the latter included a review which stated this is "a worthy successor to Willy Wonka." So the search term being inside a 520 review was ranked higher than the search term being the 245 title.

An exact match in the title, regardless of subtitle, should land the work in the highest relevancy.

I would like to suggest a related relevancy improvement that is maybe asking for the same thing. When ordering/ranking exact title matches in the search results, don't consider the subtitles.

For example, “From scratch: a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home” by Tembi Locke - if someone searches under All for “from scratch,” they first see less popular (based on how many items we have in the system) resources just titled "From Scratch" before the ones with titles that contain “from” and “scratch” and other words, then eventually followed by the one titled “From Scratch: [subtitle].” It accidentally gives weight to the absence of a subtitle over the existence of one, even though a regular patron would usually just consider the bit before the colon to be the title.

Another example: “Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to survive” by Stephanie Land. If you only search for “maid,” the record with the full subtitle appears on page 3 after “Maid Marian,” “Death of a Maid,” etc. In some cases (such as this), the digital records from Overdrive don't include the subtitle and don't roll up. The eBook/eAudio result therefore appears at the top of the search results, which is fine except that it makes it look like we only have digital formats of that work. We would like the resource to still be at the top of the search results if we add the subtitle and make it roll up with the physical formats.

When looking for titles, oftentimes the item doesn't populate until the 5th+ page in the search. When I type in the exact title, it should be at the top of the first page.

The title "Thrillers : 100 must-reads" was on page 14 (with 10 results per page):

https://danbu.na4.iiivega.com/search/card?id=fc989e72-9f3e-5717-9212-2023af6f5a73&entityType=FormatGroup

The title "Thriller : stories to keep you up all night" didn't come up until page 23

https://danbu.na4.iiivega.com/search/card?id=55be7a01-bce7-5e33-af87-a7f494d4f17e&entityType=FormatGroup

You should be seeing an exact title match first. Can you share the link for the Thriller title that you found later in the results or which page of search results you found it?