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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:14:12 EST
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- From: "NICHOLAS ROSSELLI (219)980-6929" <ROSSELLI@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
- Subject: RE: PROQUEST v4.0 Installations...
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- I started out this week installing the software as a stand-alone. On the
- whole I thought that the software installed pretty well but there are
- two glaring problems...
- First, the thing is just too hideously slow for our low-end ps/2's. Always
- frustrating when a company takes a usable search interface and "upgrades"
- it to make it unusable.
- The second problem is a bit more pronounced, and apparently few people
- have stumbled across it yet. Having installed it, I asked another
- librarian for a search topic to test it out. Their suggestion was
- "family owned businesses".
- (Note: I had set the options to include plurals and variants.)
- I ran the search as "family owned business" - a search which returned
- @311 on the last update of ABI/Inform. The new version returned 49!
- I little tinkering revealed that you found another 295 records if you
- searched using "family owned businesses". A couple of other searches
- seemed to confirm that UMI has forgotten to tell the software about
- plurals that use "es"....<sigh>
-
- Nicholas Rosselli
- rosselli@ucs.indiana.edu
- rosselli@iubacs.bitnet
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