[B-Greek] Searching archives: solution

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jun 26 09:47:53 EDT 2005


As George Somsel has noted, searching for Biblical passages by using  
reference links is problematic precisely because of the broad range  
of formats in which we refer to passages (e.g. Romans 4:1, Rom 4:1,  
Romans 4.1, Rom 4.1, Ro 4:1, Ro 4.1, even Romans 4,1). I've found it  
easier when looking for a particular text to use the BG  
transliteration of key words in the passages, e.g. PISTEI or LOGOS or  
ARCHGOS.

On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Dony K. Donev wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> David McKay
>> davidDOTmckayATozemailDOTcomDOTau
>> www.davidmckay.info


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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