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Old 08-12-2014, 05:21 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by HYPE View Post
Agreed. It's the worst search engine that I have to deal with when looking for books. Sometimes even writing the exact book's title will throw completely irrelevant results, and the actual book will be buried somewhere in the results. I find it incredible that someone at Kobo would analyze this search engine and think "yup, this is it boys".
Put the title into double quotes, so the search engine searches on the entire string, instead of each separate word:

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Sea...ip+of+the+ring

vs.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Sea...of+the+ring%22

and:

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Sea...ince+of+ravens

vs.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Sea...e+of+ravens%22

As you can see, the two first searches have some of the same books. It seems Kobo tries to guess the book (maybe doing a quoted search internally), coming up with only one book, and filling the rest of the page with (random?) best-sellers. The two second searches are much more relevant, producing the correct book and many related books, as those related books probably refer to, or are referred by the one you are searching for.
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