[B-Greek] Searching archives: solution
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Sun Jun 26 09:48:48 EDT 2005
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:09:10 -0400 "Dony K. Donev" <dony at cupandcross.com>
writes:
> 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/
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I haven't even downloaded the little rascal yet so I absolutely don't
know what I'm talking about though I have a suspicion. Have you tried
the format in brackets [b-greek "1 Jn 2:18"] ? You might also try other
formats such as [b-greek "1 John 2:18"], [b-greek "1 Jn 2.18"], and
[b-greek "1 John 2.18"]. In other words, put the entire passage
reference in quotes.
george
gfsomsel
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