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Around the one hundredth Google result on a search on "RedLightGreen" was this comment

October 16, 2003 Not limited to government documents, but still: RLG and OCLC seem to be moving toward having limited versions of their union catalogs available for free online. So far, I have been utterly unimpressed with RLG's RedLightGreen; for example, a search for the LC subject heading "Women" just now turned up no results. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something about it, because that just can't be right

Finally! Something other than an example of the telephone game (where i'm left wondering where Barbara Quint got some of her facts). Unfortunately the Libronaut has no comments or trackback links.

First, I'll wager The Libronaut was searching via the "more search options" instead of the keyword box. If you search on "women" in the keyword box,

However, we have determined there is a bug in the fielded searching due to the MindServer's stemming implementation. We tested the system on a 10% database that did not include stemming, and the fielded search worked just fine. The full database was delivered a little late; that, plus some other crises, i've alluded to here, meant we failed to as through a QA as we would have liked. Recommind is working like mad to fix it.

As proof of it being a bizarre stemming bug, use the "more search options" to search on the subject "womens" instead of "women" and plenty of results will be provided.

My hair isn't grey yet....

This post was inspired by the Quarter Life Crisis review. Unfortunately (a) posting a comment to the blog or getting a track back link fails and (b) we don't yet support what s/he wants to do.

I will try to remember to let you know when we get the static URL working. Currently, we do not support linking into the system. We are aware that it is a significant flaw.

Posted by judielaine at October 28, 2003 03:53 PM | TrackBack