[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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> David McKay
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