..and I'll prose on at length to prove it!
To start with "bookmobile" brought up the same number of hits on both Simple and Advanced Search, and "nswpln2008" brought up nothing on either, so I checked the comments back on the home webpage for hints.
And logic kicked in - of course a keyword search was going to bring up the same results at both. Using the tag search option, "bookmobile" at Advanced Search brought up 33 compared with 534 at Basic Search. The first hit at Advanced Search was posted 17 days ago and has an Authority rating (an index of popularity) of 36 and the second most recent 46 days ago with 0 Authority. Which compares with 2 days ago with an Authority of 46 and 5 days ago with an Authority of 147 for the first two hits at Simple Search. Which would seem to indicate that many people do not bother with tagging. The first hit at Advanced Seach was 17th at Simple Search and the second not in the top 20 so if you only looked at the first page or so of results they would likely be missed.
"nswpln2008" would be used as a tag only for the images loaded on Flickr as part of this course so logical that it was only relevant when searching for photos and hence at Simple Search. I tried the course URL at the second Advanced Search option and just got an error message, but I would have expected hits there.
I tried "library manag*" at both Simple and Advanced Search and got 29 hits at Simple Search and nothing at Advanced Search until I got rid of the truncation and used "library manager" - got 2 then.
Advanced Search is most useful when you are looking for things relating to a URL. Tag searching is not nearly as efficient as keyword searching and you can narrow your search to posts/blogs/photos/videos there as well.
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