The fixing of fuzzy search on logos.com is appreciated, but it leaves a problem
There had been some issues with fuzzy search in the store not working very well, having some bugs and giving way more results than helpful. See this thread, for example. I think there was another thread, but I can't find it.
I'm glad to see that it seems to have been improved. I'm not seeing thousands of results anymore when I search for a book.
One thing seems to have been removed entirely, and that was the feature where you could choose to "Search for exact matches only". But there are still cases where it appears a fuzzy search is happening and it shouldn't be -- I've put my search text in quotation marks -- and there is no option now to say "Search for exact matches only".
Here I was searching to see if Logos carried a book called "Hebrew for Christians". I didn't want to see if it carried something similar; I was looking to see if that existed as a book. (I had my reasons. See here if you're curious.)
The result was this. It is clearly not looking for the exact phrase "Hebrew for Christians". I would have expected it to.
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Well, at least the code is deterministic (almost the same results). But I wasn't logged on.
"Jason has it all—a great family and an exciting, successful career. But in a blink, it's all gone, and he struggles ..."
The part I have no idea the reason (and common among retailers), is that if this is your primary (or only) avenue to sell goods, why constantly muck it up? Is losing sales so uneventful?
I spent most of my career on the hard-side of retailing ... stores. We had software (including neural learning, genetic optimization, and so forth) and each inch was significant. But in the web-world, slopppiness seems so ... well, who cares. My guess is 'supervision' ... bosses don't have a good feel for the details. And they don't have a good cost/benefit model (for changes/staffing).
I can't wait for Logos to start advertising like Jeff! Although what he recommended was indeed true.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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DMB said:
But I wasn't logged on.
I don't understand this concept. [:D] I'm logged on always on all of Logos sites. I never log myself off. Doesn't seem to be a security risk. I'm not worried someone is going to come to my PC and order books for me and charge my credit card. And I don't want to be bothered to have to log in again every time I visit Logos.com or one of their family of sites. I think it was you I noticed the other day complaining that cookies never seem to migrate from Logos.com to Verbum.com for you, so you always have to log back in again there. Again, I've never had to deal with that.
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I use 2 browsers. One pretty much never logged in, no images; we run totally on cellular, so it's a faster load and extra features. Cookies auto-cleared per session. The other browser (Safari) is cooky-fied .. the usual. I move back and forth during the day.
But yes, on Safari, FL apps periodically don't recog each other.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Every now and then the fuzz should get a haircut. Or at least be anchored to the LOGGED ON user.
My search returns the long-haired fuzzy: Politics, Prophets, and Blink. And Mythology. None of which are high on my likely-to-buy list when what I have in mind is "Hebrew for Christians."0
