[Koha-devel] Modules only on CPAN

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Martin Renvoize <
martin.renvoize at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:

> If search results are all we are paginating server-side then shouldn't we
> really be focusing on search relevancy and limiting results down such that
> we don't really need to paginate at all?  (I'm kinda hoping that the
> elastic search work will go a long way to solving this dilemma...) I would
> put money on analytic's showing that most users give up after page two or
> three of the results at the latest.
>

I would not be surprised that there is evidence that most users, most of
the time, don't go past the first page or so of search results.

However, "most" is not "everybody" and is not "every time", and is
decidedly not "the librarians who are among Koha's users, and who have
legitimate search needs that are different from most patrons".  I do not
have confidence that any search engine that exists now is going to solve
the relevance problem perfectly until the advent of both real strong AI and
telepathy. (And we might discover we have ... other problems should a
strong AI arise ;) ).  I also don't foresee Google dropping search result
paging any time soon.

That's not to say that we shouldn't look at all avenues of improving search
result sorting, but I do suggest that a separate thread would be better for
discussing that.

Regards,

Galen
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