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@calimae There's a possibility that we have some setting toggled that we shouldn't.

@platypus I've been quietly angry that we have Primo instead of Summon (yeah, I know Summon isn't made to be a catalog, but, I mean, Clarivate HAS THE TECHNOLOGY), because I had so many fewer problems with Summon, even when it was new

@perigee yeah, there are so many vendors, it's easy to forget to go looking for things in all the places

Bonus-bonus, because I was hoping to find that image online instead of on my phone (yeah, of course I keep it in my saved images, have you met me??), and I ran across this:

Bonus content, in apology: this is how I remember (will, in fact, never ever forget) the binomial for American robins — sorry, robins

Hopefully in before someone explains searching to me, an experienced library technologist: yes, I can click a button to exclude "American robin" from the results, if I notice it. And of course, I can put my search terms in quotation marks. As a librarian, I know this. A novice searcher wouldn't, though.

It *prioritized the synonym, split across two metadata fields, over my search term in one field.*

Their ranking algorithm sucks.

Primo.

what. the fuck.

I did a search for the words "Turdus migratorius" (the binomial name of the American robin) and limited to books, online.

The first result was by someone with the first name "Robin" with the word "American" in the title, about literature. (I didn't screenshot it for reasons; you may not want to redo this experiment verbatim.)

The fifth result was the first that had anything to do with American robins.

@vagina_museum OK, that is extremely badass. "I don't need this anymore, would you like it?"

Hi5 to him!