At 11:33 AM 6/22/2012 -0400, CV wrote:

We're still on version 3.4 & searching for "nature defecit" fails to bring up the title "Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder" in both the staff & public catalog search.

We have the QueryFuzzy preference enabled under Search preferences.

Can anyone address whether this is expected behavior, or whether the fuzzy search engine is improved in 3.8?

A couple of points (using 3.6.1 in production, and an experimental 3.8.??? in my sand box) and after cataloguing your Richard Louv title, and using both staff and OPAC: Searching for "nature defecit" *with* the double quotes fails -- this I expect, as the quotes eliminate fuzziness. Searching for nature defecit (no quotes) works perfectly. Searching for "nature-deficit" (with quotes) fails; I am only semi-surprised as the logic of the - (minus sign) is to search for the phrase without the term after the minus. However +nature -deficit also finds that title alone and in my opinion should not (but my opinion is not definitive.) I also tested with a phrase a little more common to our catalogue: British Navy British Navy ==> 1636 results "British Navy" ==> no results (this I must look into, I am very surprised as it actually exists in the catalogue written with the quote marks on several occasions.) Britsh Navy and British Nevy both ==> 1634 results (have not yet found which two (if the same two?) are missing. But ... Britsh Nevy (double typo) finds 1637 ... weird. Best - Paul