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-gecko-



Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Posts: 285
Location: Near Seattle, WA
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:55 am Reply with quote
I was looking for an anime that I have a opening song for. I remembered that it had "animal" in the title.

I searched for "animal" in the right sidebar search area of the anime page, but the title didn't come up. Later when I was browsing the anime forum someone mentioned the title, which was Animal Yokocho. When I searched for "Yokocho" using the same search function the title did show up.

Why did it show up for "Yokocho", but not for the more generic "Animal"?
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Samurai CDZ



Joined: 22 Mar 2003
Posts: 776
Location: Manhattan, KS
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:31 am Reply with quote
It did, just under a different title (Animal Lane). I find this very annoying at times, though I understand why it does it. Hopefully when the search gets upgraded this can be fixed.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor


Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 9902
Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:53 am Reply with quote
The system outputs the first alphabetic result. In your case, word "Lane" comes faster than "Yokocho," therefore the result shows

anime Animal Lane (TV) (93.3%)
Animal Yokocho

even Animal Yokocho is the main title and "Animal Lane" is just a fan-translated alternative title. I wish it could be fixed in the coming Encyclopedia 2.0, if not sooner.

EDIT: Somehow it's not always the first alphabetic result comes out as the link...I'm comfused. Anime dazed
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patch



Joined: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 677
Location: New York, NY
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:54 am Reply with quote
gecko this a very good point that you bring up, I think staff should point this out to the developers here (?dan?) since it shows some problems with current data model.

It seems that Animal Lane is the primary title, and Animal Yokocho is an alternate title. Bottom line is seems the current internal data model is not properly linking these titles, since the search index/db objects being queried do return the appropriate anime (id) but based off different queries you get different titles.
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Dan42
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Joined: 02 Jan 2002
Posts: 3794
Location: Montreal
PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:36 pm Reply with quote
The idea is that the titles are sorted in order of how much they match a given title. A search for akira matches 100% of "Akira" (the anime) but only matches 33% of "Akira Daikuhara" (animator), therefore the result for the anime comes first. Similarly, a search for "animal" matches 54% of "Animal Lane" but only 43% of "Animal Yokocho".

What can I say, I'm not google.
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