[B-Greek] Searching archives: solution

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Sun Jun 26 10:06:09 EDT 2005


I will take the opportunity to point out that if you use one of my two 
solutions to search B-Greek, at the top of the search a search form will 
appear wherby you can run a new search or use advanced parameters such 
as boolean.  If you really want to modify my solutions to include a 
different search method, you could share that with the rest of us.  I've 
been satisfied with the AND method so far though, I think it's fine for 
a default then if it fails to find what you want, do a boolean search 
from there.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson

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.
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> Dony K. Donev
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> http://cupandcross.com/
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David McKay" 
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> 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
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>> Terrific Curtis
>> Makes searching very easy for this little black duck.
>>
>> David McKay
>> davidDOTmckayATozemailDOTcomDOTau
>> www.davidmckay.info
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