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Subject: Bad search function
Date Posted: 3/8/2013 11:13 AM ET
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Anyone ever do a search for a book and get not only that book but a totally different title and author?  This happens to me regularly when I am looking for books in the religion genre.  The only factors that match are that the books are both religious topics and both paperbacks, nothing else matches.

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Date Posted: 3/8/2013 11:23 AM ET
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Are you searching by genre? There are a whole bunch of search filters you can use to get better search results.

Just a plain keyword search will return all kinds of stuff, keywords can be found in the titles, authors, and the descriptions of the books, and probably other fields as well.

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Date Posted: 3/8/2013 12:34 PM ET
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The words you used in the search appear somewhere in the listing -- as Sara said, check the description.

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Date Posted: 3/9/2013 11:52 PM ET
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Search has been a nightmare lately. It seems the parameters have broadened. I put in an author and title today and still got 87 back instead of the 11 there should have been. ;(