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This is a very frustrating search for users. An example, timely, search from the PINES catalog -- Gone girl by Gillian Flynn.
A basic title search gone girl retrieves 208 records
An advanced search title: gone girl and author Flynn, returns 7 titles, including two with the subtitle a novel and the Spanish language Perdida.
A basic title search of "gone girl" retrieves 9 titles -- the 7 Flynn titles and 2 anthologies. Both anthologies include the short story Gone girl by Ross Macdonald.
An advanced title search of gone girl matches exactly retrieves 3 titles. They are all the Flynn book but exclude those with the subtitle a novel and the Spanish language version. Which means it excludes the primary title record for the novel.
In my opinion, to best serve users, the matches exactly search using the drop down menu should retrieve the same result set as a title search using quotes -- "gone girl" A patron may want that Ross MacDonald short story and, definitely, the primary title record for the novel Gone girl by Flynn. If it can't do that, then, yes, I think it should be removed.