Store suggestion - searches should match authors

stodge · 11-04-2010, 01:30 PM

Kobo needs to improve the search engine on the book store. If I search "arthur c clarke" I get 504 results although only 5 on the first page are from Arthur C Clarke. The search engine should be smart enough to realise the search I entered exactly matches an author. Although that would likely only return 5 hits so I can sort of understand why they don't want the search engine to work like this.

dmacmart · 11-04-2010, 02:45 PM

Did you put the quotes in the search box? It's not perfect, but it's better - there were only 25 matches instead of 500 when I tried that.

HamsterRage · 11-05-2010, 09:56 AM

Also, if you click on the author's name of one of the books on the screen it does a search that seems to match against author better than just typing the author's name in the search box.

11-04-2010, 01:30 PM	#1
stodge Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 1008328 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Sony PRS-650SC	Store suggestion - searches should match authors Kobo needs to improve the search engine on the book store. If I search "arthur c clarke" I get 504 results although only 5 on the first page are from Arthur C Clarke. The search engine should be smart enough to realise the search I entered exactly matches an author. Although that would likely only return 5 hits so I can sort of understand why they don't want the search engine to work like this.

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11-04-2010, 02:45 PM	#2
dmacmart Fanatic Posts: 534 Karma: 696908 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Ottawa Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Glo, Arc, H2O, iPhone, iPad 2, (husband)Touch	Did you put the quotes in the search box? It's not perfect, but it's better - there were only 25 matches instead of 500 when I tried that.

11-05-2010, 09:56 AM	#3
HamsterRage Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 24326 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kobo	Also, if you click on the author's name of one of the books on the screen it does a search that seems to match against author better than just typing the author's name in the search box.

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