Troubleshooting Your Search: Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong

摘要

Murphy's Law is alive and well, as most online searchers and ONLINE readers know only too well. There you are, fingers moving at lightning speed across your keyboard, but when the results pop up on your screen, they are not what you expected. Too many hits, too few hits, hits that don't correspond with your search strategy, or hits that seem incomplete. All these confirm the existence of Murphy's Law. You, the searcher, are left to figure out what went wrong. Did you do something wrong? Did the database producer or the online host do something wrong? Or was it a combination?