[B-Greek] Searching archives: solution

Dony K. Donev dony at cupandcross.com
Sun Jun 26 09:09:10 EDT 2005


This is a very good browser tool; however, the capabilities of the search 
itself need refining. For example a search for 1 John 2:18 assumed by the 
script as "1John" AND "2:18" returns close to 100 individual links most of 
which have little to do with 1 John 2:18. The top 3 results deal with a 
completely different passage. A direct hit containing the full string in the 
query comes only in 4th and 7th places on the first page of results. One may 
lack the time to explore 100 links especially when researching a larger text 
where more than one search is made. This limited capability of navigation 
leads to an unnecessary email post(s) asking questions already discussed and 
ignoring previous discussions which are difficult to find. At the same time, 
the volume of emails and the size of archives increase geometrically. 
Technically, this would give a normal search script greater probability of 
hitting the same string at later time, but this is hardly the case here. A 
new search of the same string with the implemented script provides a greater 
number of the exact hits along with even greater number of hits that have 
little to do with the searched sting.



Dony K. Donev

http://cupandcross.com/





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David McKay" <david.mckay at ozemail.com.au>
To: "'Curtis Hinson'" <curtis at curtishinson.com>; "'B Greek'" 
<b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Searching archives: solution


> Terrific Curtis
> Makes searching very easy for this little black duck.
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