Comment 5 for bug 1267129

Looking at the example searches Dan posted above, they all seem to be matching my expectations of how the system, as it exists today, should be returning results.

However, I do think it would be worthwhile to consider the idea of anchored title searches only retrieving results based on 245a. We've had this discussion somewhat recently at MassLNC, and it does seem like, in most cases, users are unaware of the subtitle, and they may have more success with the search if the system were just looking at the 245a.

However, let's say we did this with the above examples. Would the user then need to enter "^the father hunt;$" (with the semicolon at the end) to successfully retrieve search results? If so, I think the user would continue to struggle with these searches because nobody is going to think to add that punctuation.

Overall, I think we have two separate issues here:

1. As Thomas discovered in the earlier discussion, the "Matches Exactly" option on the advanced search page should probably add quotation marks to the search so that a search for the father hunt is transformed to "^the father hunt$" instead of ^the father hunt$.

2. We might want to consider a change so that anchored title searches are only searching on 245a instead of the entire title.

Since both issues led to the results Elaine found with the Joy of Cooking example, I don't know which one belongs on this bug report and which one should be addressed through a new bug report.