TL;DR: Searching "the wizard the witch and the wild one" doesn't return any of the numerous Storygraph entries for the "Worlds Beyond Number" podcast, such as this one: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ea1bda75-4a60-44f5-9cf1-38513ab84d6d. This appears to be because you must search the entire exact title.
I've noticed that for a long time now the search seems to return some really strange results. In particular, I like to track a particular podcast, Worlds Beyond Number, in Storygraph. The entries are created with the title being the episode title, which is something like "The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One #1: The Open Door". Unfortunately, searching any part of that episode title never seems to return the podcast episode. In fact, if I search "the wizard the witch and the wild one", it returns no results whatsoever. The only way I've managed to get the podcast episodes is if I search only for their series name, "Worlds Beyond Number". That makes it difficult to check if another user has already created an entry for a new episode because they may have mistakenly not included the series. I've also been considering tracking these episodes in one of the combined "on-going" entries I've seen previously for this podcast, but I can't find all of them since they aren't all added to the "Worlds Beyond Number" series.
This is to do with the "Not A Book" status and me filtering them down to exact title matches to tidy up search for our Book library, though I didn't realise punctuation had to be exact also.
This post should probably be adapted to: "Not A Book search too strict/nigh-on impossible to find particular Not A Book records in search"...something like that!
Nadia Thanks for the info! Good to know it's a combo of the "Not a Book" status and the exact search for them. I'll change the title.
Nadia Are you all working on an Advanced Search for this area? I see Advanced Search for some other areas like Recommendations. I imagine this would solve the problem entirely if you allow the user to select whether or not to use Exact Search and you could even include a 'Not a Book' option. I imagine folks would typically know whether the thing they're searching is 'Not a Book'.
chronohart Yes, we will have an Advanced Search, and including a "Not a Book" option there is a great idea.