Creative but not useful

What does it take to make the store search know when I ask for genre, I am interested in genre not in anything that shares the first three letters. Genesis is not genre, gender is not genre, generation is not genre ... I get more irrelevant hits than relevant ones.

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scooter

I reply to say that GENerally the library is poorly kept. L cannot GENerate a library with any consistency.

Let them be GENerous with their book page data, so we customers will love the shopping experience.

Let them come up with a GENeralized page blank they can infill.

ex: New Lexham offerings do not show an author.

I speak GENtly on this today; sometimes I grind L a little.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

What does it take to make the store search know when I ask for genre, I am interested in genre not in anything that shares the first three letters. Genesis is not genre, gender is not genre, generation is not genre ... I get more irrelevant hits than relevant ones.

Do you have a URL to reproduce or screenshot showing the problem? I searched for genre, scanned through the first 60 results, and they all seemed as expected.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1304817#Comment_1304817

Do you have a URL to reproduce or screenshot showing the problem? I searched for genre, scanned through the first 60 results, and they all seemed as expected.

I hadn't tried yet, but found a quick way for you to reproduce: simply check the "unowned" filter. Interestingly the new engine won't do what the old one did, filter out the owned resources from the list and keep the others, including sort order. No it builds something new and creative but maximally unhelpful. The first 22 (mostly bundles, including L10 Full Feature Package) don't have Gen..... in the title at all, maybe down below on the resource page somewhere. The 23rd book has Gender in its title, and so on:

EDIT: my search results for ownership "all" seems to be identical to yours, and of course there are books I don't own in this list:

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1304817#Comment_1304817

NB.Mick is correct. I had turned on the unowned filter when it went bizarro ...

Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1304819#Comment_1304819

I hadn't tried yet, but found a quick way for you to reproduce: simply check the "unowned" filter. Interestingly the new engine won't do what the old one did, filter out the owned resources from the list and keep the others, including sort order. No it builds something new and creative but maximally unhelpful. The first 22 (mostly bundles, including L10 Full Feature Package) don't have Gen..... in the title at all, maybe down below on the resource page somewhere. The 23rd book has Gender in its title, and so on:

Is this the lesson to learn: to get accurate web search results, purchase fewer Logos books? [:D]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1304827#Comment_1304827

Nearly every time I sear the Logos site, I turn on the Unowned filter, since I own so many books.

It's clear that this new user experience is not aimed at users like me. I think I'll just fade off into the sunset. So long, and thanks for all the loaves and fishes...

(I'm being somewhat facetious, but seriously, I'm using the Logos store less and less and caring less and less about Logos as time marches on.)

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1304819#Comment_1304819

Thanks for the quick response. I was able to see unexpected results (for "generation", "general", "genesis", etc.) after I went to page 15 of "all" results. You're probably seeing them on page 1 because the "Unowned" filter is removing most of the most relevant results.

I've passed this bug report along to the Commerce team for further investigation.