Now, more like Google

Whenever we watch teachers use the LEARN NC website — at workshops or in formal usability studies — we find that our search tool confuses them because it doesn’t work like Google’s (or like almost any other search tool on the web). While Google looks for sites matching all the words in your search query, ours matches any of the words you type — which can result in a lot of irrelevant search results.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve fixed this problem: Our search now matches all of the words you search for, so that a search for “English language learners” doesn’t find every page of our website with the word “learners” in it. The top hits will usually be the same as before, and so while this is a fairly drastic change to the functionality of our website, you may not actually notice a difference. But if you do notice, we think you’ll see an improvement.

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