It would be really nice if Koha supported general phrase searches like
search engines do. Search for "World Book" with quotes around it
should not give the same results as searching for it without quotes.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Nicole Engard <neng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On your advanced search page click 'More Options' and then you'll see
> the Title Phrase option again.  Also the searching docs are here:
> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c7881
>
> Thanks
> Nicole
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurd...@ccfls.org> 
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make
>> Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default?  For
>> example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding
>> World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about
>> 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly
>> common in my MARC records.  I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with
>> approximately 350,000 records.  There used to be a title phrase search
>> option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Cindy
>>
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