[B-Greek] Searches

Kathleen Creager kathleen.creager at comcast.net
Thu Nov 11 09:22:18 EST 2004


A couple more comments on searching the archives:

"my" hyperlink is just the command that was invoked by the search button
that used to be on the archives page.  Some of the other ibiblio archives
still have a search button; perhaps Jonathon Robie knows why the b-greek
search button has disappeared and/or how to get it back.

The hyperlink, even when it returns "no matches", also brings you to a
search page that lets you alter the search parameters; from there you should
be able to find what you are looking for.  Generally I have found that the
ibiblio/mailman search works better for words that occured in subject lines
than for words in message body, although it often finds those as well.  It
also works well on searches by author,  although that is only useful if you
remember who wrote a particular message you want to find.  But if you'd like
to test to make sure the hyperlink is working, try searching for

 Carl Conrad deponent

- I got 171 matches on that one. :-)

One last thing - if you go to the Google homepage and search for whatever it
is you are looking for, plus the term "b-greek", it works quite well except
that Google may not have indexed the latest month of archives, and depending
what you're searching for it may turn up a lot of duplicates as well as
things that aren't b-greek archived messages.  For example, Googling for

Carl Conrad deponent b-greek

returns 565 matches, because Carl's B-Greek messages and other work on Greek
voice are referenced by other Web pages, and also because the Google search
will turn up all the archive index pages that contain the search words.

I hope this is helpful!
Kathleen Creager


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
To: <Remington186 at aol.com>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Searches


> At 8:40 AM -0500 11/11/04, Remington186 at aol.com wrote:
> >B-Greek conferees,
> >
> >Easiest way to search archives: bookmark
> >http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/index.html
> >
> >At the bottom of the page is a Google search box. Easy as pie. [I tried
> >Kathleen's hyperlink a number of times and it always returned "No matches
were
> >found." Hope it worked for others.]
>
> The problem is: that's the older archives up to the point in 2002 that we
> switched over from Lyris to MailMan software for the list; that will find
> only entries prior to that point. Kathleen's hyperlink works fine if you
> carefully phrase the search term;I've always found it easiest to search
for
> the Greek word in the passage in the standard BG transliteration.
> -- 
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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