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Originally Posted by PatNY

BTW, in my actual search in calibre, I was using no quotes around the search terms. I just used them in my original post here to try to make the post easier to understand.

When discussing search strings using quotes in your post where you didn't use quotes in the search does not make things easier to understand. When I responded in post 6, quotes were critical to my points. Quotes are always there or not there based on the search. You might want to re-read (mentally correcting the and/or error you pointed out) that post with this understanding in mind.

Originally Posted by PatNY

You're saying whether you put quotes in or not, the advanced search will assume them, right?

Yes, as I outlined in my first post the search string that is entered in the search field using the advanced search placed

title:"life pi"

in the search bar, which obviously is using quotes. When using the advanced search, the resultant search string is always shown exactly in the search field and can be analyzed from there.

Originally Posted by PatNY

I went to google and put in "life pi" and the entire first page of results I got are related to either the book, the movie that is now being made of the book, or the book's cover image. So Google does something very different.

Yes Google does handle it slightly different as Kovid explained previously.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The only difference is google seems to interpret a space in a quoted string as being "any punctuation" which calibre does not.

This means for "life pi" Google will find any instance of life pi regardless of any punctuation that is between life and pi. So along with life pi Google returns hits for life. Pi and life, Pi and life: Pi etc...

Originally Posted by PatNY

I agree with kiwidude that the book summary metadata should not be included in the default basic search.

It looks like we agree on this point.