11-25-2007, 06:12 AM | #1 |
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Paperback Digital's search engine
Using the Search facility at Paperback Digital:
"kevin anderson" - 0 hits "kevin j anderson" - 0 hits "kevin j. anderson" - 2 pages of hits This seems unduly fussy It could be a struggle finding stuff (or is it me?). |
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site:paperbackdigital.com kevin anderson It give better result. Then you can click on any book --then on the author name, on the ebook detailed page, to get all the books by that author. Last edited by DanT; 11-25-2007 at 11:48 AM. |
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11-25-2007, 12:02 PM | #3 |
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Great tip - thanks!
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Just gave it a shot assuming there is some sql database sitting in the background and used the sql wildcard character '%' ... it works.
For instance: 'kevin%anderson' will yield the expected 2 pages of search results. Btw, being a developer of database driven web applications myself, seeing this work gave me the shivers. Last edited by ashalan; 11-25-2007 at 02:13 PM. |
11-25-2007, 02:52 PM | #5 |
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Thanks, I'd tried * as a wildcard (without success) but not %
If you enter "kev%j", that works too - "j" gets expanded even though there is no "%" after it - is that usual for sql? |
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11-25-2007, 03:58 PM | #6 |
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No, it is not. Yet I have seen a lot of developers having their code always add a % at the end of any text search. Seems like PBD's developers did just that
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11-26-2007, 10:32 AM | #7 |
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Looks like they've stopped the wildcard searches - what worked yesterday isn't working today
But they haven't made any actual improvements to the Search facility to compensate. Oh well, at least we have the Google method |
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