Re: How does the gutenberg search actually work?

On 03/05/2013 03:08 AM, Robert Cicconetti wrote:

> How does one search for an exact title in the PG archive? I went to look
> for a book I worked on ("Brother Against Brother", 40541) and had to dig
> through 3 pages of fairy books to find it despite specifying the exact
> title. Quotes don't seem to work. Searching for the second title word
> "against" doesn't return any results at all...
>
> I know I can use google but I'd rather use the tools actually hooked into
> the PG catalog...

That's an unfortunate title because "against" is a stopword, so common a 
word the database doesn't index it. We have to exclude words for 
performance reasons, so that the whole word index fits into memory.

That means, your search is based on "brother" alone, a very common word.


Things you could do are:

Type "brother" <enter> and then click on "sort by release date": it 
comes up 3rd.

Type "brother tompkins" <enter> it comes up 2nd.

Type "brother musick" <enter> it comes up as the only result.

Type "40541" it comes up as the only result.


Or, you can use google:

Type "brother against brother ebook" and it comes up first (at least for 
me).





Regards

-- 
Marcello Perathoner
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