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Originally Posted by corroonb
I like buying books at Kobo and I'm starting to expect a certain level of incompetence as the norm but their search engine at Kobobooks.com is incredibly bad. Not only can one not filter out all the free and not so free self-published garbage but it often returns 100,000 results for a simple title search.
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As near as I can tell, they will display exact matches first and then try to match any word in the search string. Much like Google/Bing/whatever, this can result in pages of results that have nothing to do with your search. The Kobo search also does not remove common words from your search -- including a 'the' or 'an', returns a massive result set. Even funnier is trying a single letter search and seeing what the display says it actually searched for.
My wife got a chuckle when one of her searches for children's book returned a study guide to illustrated dental embryology, histology and anatomy. Not quite what the usual 8 year old is looking for.
Regards,
David