Searching for "moses" brings back information on "mosses"

David Roberts
David Roberts Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 3 ✭
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This is facepalmingly bad, to the point where I'd classify it as a bug. I can understand trying to correct a spelling mistake and bringing in information that is a typo-degree off what is actually asked for, if there are no or few hits for the exact search term. Most search engines do the same. But anything that matches the search term exactly should be brought in FIRST. To be clear, if I scroll down, the Factbook does show info about Moses. And it's not exactly like Moses is a minor persona in the Bible. And what I got first is information about mosses. This is on the MacOS Desktop app, latest version, 40.0.351.

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  • David Roberts
    David Roberts Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 3 ✭
    edited March 11
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    Apparently, if you capitalize "Moses" it does better. Most search engines aren't case sensitive. I should also say that I originally searched for "law of moses" and got back information on "mosses."

  • Joe McCune (Faithlife)
    Joe McCune (Faithlife) Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 1,308

    I am sorry you experienced this. If I do a Smart Search for moses (all lower-case) I get information about Moses.

    It would be interesting to hear if others are getting information about "mosses".

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,586

    I am receiving correct results.

  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 530 ✭✭✭

    Desktop Verbum, German UI gets correct results for both (capitalized and not)

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  • David Roberts
    David Roberts Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 3 ✭

    Interesting that others aren't seeing the same thing. @Joe McCune (Faithlife) , it might be worth filling a bug and having an engineer check it out. I'm happy to work with somebody to debug it further.

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