relevancy improvement
When doing a title search, search results that have the search term in the title should have a higher relevancy than those that have the search term in the subtitle.
For example, when doing a title search for "thriller" in our catalog, two of the first three results have thriller in the title. You have scroll through over a hundred more search results before you find another item titled "Thrillers" and another page of results before you find another result specifically titled "Thriller" The rest of the results have thriller in the subtitle.
If there is an exact title match for a search, it should be at the top of results.
Amanda Gilbertie
shared this idea
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Laurie Shedrick
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An exact match in the title, regardless of subtitle, should land the work in the highest relevancy.
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Kathryn Brew
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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.
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Emily Vosberg
commented
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.
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Amanda Gilbertie
commented
The title "Thrillers : 100 must-reads" was on page 14 (with 10 results per page):
The title "Thriller : stories to keep you up all night" didn't come up until page 23
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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?
