words in title query appear to be ignored

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words in title query appear to be ignored

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searches all goldsmith texts:
http://rousseau.ci.uchicago.edu:3000/query/ecco/search?duplicates=ignore&sorting=1&sourcematchcontext=commanders&sourceauthor=goldsmith&sourcetitle=An%20history%20of%20England&targetauthor=&targettitle=&sourcedate=

Answer 1 · 2016-01-23T17:08:37.000Z

Yes and no: words that don’t occur are ignored in that they don’t add up to the score of individual results in which these words don’t occur. So what’s happening is that you get results with non-matching words, and those at the top happen to have a higher score given the query. Make sense? :-)