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Search returning inconsistent/incomplete results #40

Open edwardsala opened 7 years ago

edwardsala commented 7 years ago

Note that in the screenshot below the two books share the author name of "Keith". Keith Petersen and Lloyd Keith. However, Keith Petersen has written several books for us and only one of them is showing up. keith___search_results___wsu_press_stage_site___washington_state_university

Note the title of the book above "The Fur Trade Gamble" is not found when searching for the exact title name. Note that searching for partial title such as "Fur Trade" produces the same result.

the_fur_trade_gamble___search_results___wsu_press_stage_site___washington_state_university

If you search for the word "Hanford" only one title comes up and there are several titles about Hanford that should be listed. Note the URL differences between the above searches and the one below.

atomic_geography___wsu_press_stage_site___washington_state_university

jeremyfelt commented 7 years ago

The default search in WordPress is pretty funky, so I'm not too surprised. I'm going to mark this as a bug and dig deeper. It may be something that we improve incrementally over the next few weeks or months. I'll check back once I have an idea of the level of effort. Thanks for all the info!

edwardsala commented 7 years ago

Bump... @jeremyfelt @philcable We are now ready to launch a campaign to promote our new web site. Having the ability to accurately SEARCH the site is the only thing holding us up at the moment. If you have a timeline for attacking this issue please let me know so we can plan accordingly. Thanks!

jeremyfelt commented 7 years ago

I think we have a way forward with how we're managing people in search results on Murrow. Once that's settled in the next few days we should have a better idea.