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FMP search function unreliable?

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  • 05-03-2016 9:44pm
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    The Chieftain
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭


    Have been very busy for the last few days utilizing the free access on Findmypast (FMP) and Ancestry. Just noticed this morning that the search function on FMP seems unreliable. Specifically, newspaper search results seem to depend critically on the word order used in the search. That is awful. Can anyone else confirm this "feature"?


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Newspaper searches are tricky because they rely on OCR. I've haven't had any particular problems with the FMP ones. Are you searching the British Newspaper archive section or the Irish ones - I think they were done by different companies.

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    The Chieftain
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭The Chieftain


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Newspaper searches are tricky because they rely on OCR. I've haven't had any particular problems with the FMP ones. Are you searching the British Newspaper archive section or the Irish ones - I think they were done by different companies.

    I was searching the Irish newspaper section. Just for illustrative purposes, what I found was that something like searches for
    "1798 Wexford," and "Wexford 1798" gave different results. This suggests the search terms are not fully independent (not the actual search I used).


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