Friday, May 11, 2007

Improvement in Keyword Searching

When you do a Keyword search, or an Advanced Keyword search, the catalog displays the results grouped first by relevance, and within each relevance group in reverse date order (newest on top). Very often this floats what you are looking for to the first screen of results.

Now it also tells you plainly that the results are presently sorted by relevance, and presents the option to change to a title or date sort.

When it does the re-sorting it ignores its notions of relevance and gives you a straight list. (The catalog should always have worked this way, but didn't until the catalog software vendor fixed their programming.)

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