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message 1: by Lisa P (new)

Lisa P | 12 comments What am I missing here? If you do a Goodreads search for this book by ISBN, it comes up. If you do a search by author or book title, nothing is found. Not sure how to correct this. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just not seeing.

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message 2: by Emy (last edited May 25, 2013 04:08PM) (new)

Emy (emypt) | 5037 comments The PTB are working on the search function, plus there is a caching delay on searching by words which doesn't exist on searches by Identification numbers (probably because ID# is unique but titles are repeated all over!). This copy was added a while ago, so my guess is that an alteration to the Editions record has knocked it a bit. Sorry about that!

I have updated the data on this edition so it's accurate though. Hope that helps a little!


message 3: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl I have no idea what that means. I know staff has been working on the search function for eons, but why can it find some books and not others? If I search for "madame bovary flaubert" (sans quotes) it finds it. But when I search for "poisonwood bible kingsolver" it brings up several responses that contain those words, but not the actual novel.


message 4: by Emy (new)

Emy (emypt) | 5037 comments There seems to be some experimentation on partial matches ongoing, which is affecting things, well, oddly :)


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