Search improvements
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Sort by length
I'd like to be able to sort not only by relevance or date but by length. When I am looking for the press coverage of an event, I am interested to find not those three-liners but the most comprehensive article I can get.
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Pages are best copied if scanned, when flat.
If one does not have the newspaper flat on the scanner, the image will blur and may not be copied at all. This certainly happened when the London Morning Post of October 30, 1856, was scanned. About half an inch of the inside columns was lost.
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Missing Pages in Suffolk Chronicle of October of 1856
Is there some reason why only five pages, (out of four pages, and two pages of the Supplement), have been digitized? It is obvious that the missing pages exist, (as the edge of it can be seen on another scan, and the whole other side has been scanned), but these missing pages are not included?
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Sometimes the template applied to a page does not match the underlying text
When I search for Whipp 1 Sept 1910 Portsmouth Evening News, only about half the article appears to be digitised so show article text is not helpful in retrieving OCR text. Portsmouth EN seems to be more problematic than most
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Missing Pages in Bristol Mercury of October of 1835
Something is quite wrong with the scans of the pages of the Bristol Mercury of October of 1835. Many are missing, and what is displayed does not necessarily match the page. How can one side of a page be digitized, and its reverse side is simply missing? I could understand if a sheet was missing, that both if its sides may be lost; but, one side digitized, and the other side isn't there? October 3, (3 pages); October 10, (2 pages, and page 1, shown, doesn't match the content for page 1); October 7, (2 pages); October 24, (3 pages);…
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I am looking for a relatives death in 1962, but all I can do is remove the years from 1950-1999.
Why can't I get into the 1960's archives. All it will allow me to do is remove the years from 1950-1999.
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Provide technical feedback on a selected extract
Although there is provision to "add a comment" on a selected extract, there is no user-friendly invitation to add technical feedback. e.g. if the extract is illegible.
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The new results page is very confusing and not as straight-forward to use as the version I was using up until
The new results page is not as straightforward to use as the edition pre Jan 2016. The earlier version was much less difficult to use.
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Author search
Hello,
It would be very useful for readers to be able to search for articles written by a specific author. He is often indicated by a em dash in front of the name.
Simply searching for the name of the author is not always a solution. I tried searching for articles written by Winston Churchill and had to seek the ones that are not just reporting about him.Best regards,
Andrei Vasiliu, Târgoviște, Romania2 votes -
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I HAVE JUST SEARCHED FOR THE WORD "THE" FOR THE 1 JAN 1963 TO 31 DEC 1963 - I CNAN'T WRITE ON THIS BECAUSE OF THE SPINNING THING
JUST MAKE A SEARCH THAT GETS RESULTS, PLEASE - MANY THANKS
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I frequently wish to search for a particular address, such as 114a
I frequently wish to search for a particular address, such as "114A East Street". Even when doing an advanced search for that particular string of characters, I am offered thousands of false hits that may contain the word "a". Is there a way I can tell the search engine I really, really mean that particular string of characters ONLY. Clicking the "Exact search" box does nothing to help.
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Save queries for future use
I have been using the archive to carry out historical research. I would like to be able to save my query so that I can modify it from day to day - for example, I may only be interested in a particular date range and newspapers from a particular area so if I could store the query then it could act as a basis for searching for particular words or phrases without having to key in the dates and titles again.
12 votesWe’ll take a look at this one – it’s on our list but low down at present.
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Better search engine
The search engine on the Newspaper archive is too complicated
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Sorting results by date
Right now, one can sort by date, but only most recent to oldest. I normally want to sort from oldest to most recent, but can't tell how to do it or if it can be done. Thanks.
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...just better searching please.
Make the search better. I often search on a group of words and despite using the advanced search function and putting the phrase into the correct field it doesn't always work correctly.
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window 8
It seems that I cannot load the text when using Windows 8. I can only download who pdf pages which I have to manually transpose into useable text. There will be more and more people using this operating this system. How about updating for us?
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Be able to only show article titles and dates without pictures or any content after a search
Article titles with content and pictures take up too much space in some cases. By providing an option to only show titles and dates it would be easier to select out the most promising articles.
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