Bible Search Speed is Unacceptable

Dave Hooton
Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,767
edited November 21 in English Forum

A Basic search in Entire Library for

bible:God

gave 133, 796 results in 0.5 sec!

The Bible Search (for "God") by Grid in All Passages and All Bibles took almost 9 min for 133, 689 results but the search by Verses took 9 sec and gave 133, 796 results!

I searched with Match all word forms and Match case unchecked i.e. a case insensitive search for "God".

The issues here are:

- no way to select Verses because Grid is the default for Bible Search. We need to have this selection in the Search in section and not in search results!

- unacceptable time for the Grid search.

- different results for Grid and Verses (this is partly due to NABWRNT bible from previous experience).

 

BTW why does this query work?:

[type:bible lang:English] God

The terms in [ ] have no effect, but it seems the syntax is allowed.

 

 

Dave
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  • Bradley Grainger (Logos)
    Bradley Grainger (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 11,969

    Dave Hooton said:


    BTW why does this query work?:

    [type:bible lang:English] God

    The terms in [ ] have no effect, but it seems the syntax is allowed.

    Square brackets are reserved for the new (and undocumented!) advanced query syntax. You've probably already seen "[lang el]" from some of the auto-generated queries; that can be used to search for terms in a specific language (because our desired "friendly" syntax of "Greek:word" hasn't been implemented yet). "field" is another operator that can be used as either "[field bible] God" or [field !bible] God" to search for words in or not in the specified field. ("bible:God" is, of course, the shorthand for the first example.)

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