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Originally Posted by GeoffR
I have noticed an improvement to the search results output on the website:
Before if I searched for an author it would list all books by that author, and then add some other apparently random books to the end of the list to full up the page.
Now it lists the books by the author that I searched for then adds the other books under a separate heading "People who read these also enjoyed" which makes it clear that these are not part of the search results.
(As usual this might depend on country and browser you are using. I am in New Zealand and use Firefox.)
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I see the same, Geoff, across the Pond in Australia. Yes, Firefox here as well.
But there is something maybe too imprecise in the search algorithm -- I've noticed quite a few times lately when I've searched on an author's name, the returned results don't include a book I was particularly looking for, which seems to suggest Kobo doesn't have it, yet if I then search on the
title, there it is. And it's not a matter of a simple difference, such as an author's middle initial being included in one listing but not the other, so I don't know what makes the difference. I don't mind the fuzzy results -- I've found interesting books that way -- but clearly the primary goal should be to return accurate results first.
The Angus & Robertson site (Australian site aligned with Kobo) does a fuzzy search in the first instance, and so returns results from other authors in similar subjects, but then at the top of the list it places a link that says "Show me titles only by <Author>". That must help clarify the search, because it seems to have the same issue with complete results -- using that link often then returns titles by the author you searched on that weren't returned, at least on the first or second pages, under the previous fuzzy search.
Brodie, could such an option help with the Kobo search accuracy?