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ok, I searched for two books -founders at work and the little schemer.

Founders at work found me 'Kate' who is a total babe but sadly in America. The thing is, founders at work isn't actually in the list of books in her profile.

little schemer found me 'Polina' but she doesn't have it in her book list either.

I tried searching with and without quotes around the title.

Hope you fix that. I like the idea of the site itself though. Bookmarked for future use.

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Thanks djm. We start with an exact search and (if we don't find anyone) then we bring in "related" books, using Amazon's recommendation engine.

Given the small # of people we are starting with, this progressive search is gonna "go broad" pretty often. So it's looking for all kinds of books relating to the words "founders" or "work".

Not satisfying in the short term, I realize. As we get more people, the "exact" part of the algorithm will give better results and the "broad" part will get less relevant.

And yeah, Kate is a babe.

I'm having trouble adding the books I want to my profile.

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