I'm glad the restriction on what you search has helped you, but your search technique may need refining beyond what restricting fields will do for you.
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Originally Posted by PatNY
This results in dozens of books coming up when I went to search for "Life of Pi" in my library. I put in "life pi" in the search field and got the dozens of books. (Try it; you will get dozens of books too even if you don't have "Life of Pi" in your library.)
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If you type
Life of Pi in the search area you are searching for any instance
Life or
of or
Pi. If you search for
"Life of Pi" you are searching for any instance of this exact string
Life of Pi. The first search may return hundreds of books. The second search most likely a few.
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Originally Posted by PatNY
So I went to advanced search and put in "life pi" in the title field and nothing came up.
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An advanced
Life Pi search in the title field produces this result in the search field, title:
"life pi". Note it is looking for the exact string
life pi within all of the titles and as you note no title has the exact string
life pi in the title.
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Originally Posted by PatNY
I finally figured out that the advanced search will only give results on multiple words if they are in the exact sequence they appear in the title. In other words, it won't simply treat "life pi" as two separate keywords and give results. You can successfully search on "life of" or "of pi" or "life of pi" but "life pi" will give you zero results.
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All of these results are as expected, are not bugs and will not change in future releases.
Understanding the difference in the search techniques I've outlined above will go a lot further in helping you search your library than any limit you put on fields to search.
That said to speed up searches I do remove comments from my list of fields to search.