Proximity searching in Logos 4

I was curious to see how well the search engine in v.4 worked in comparison to v.3 so I did a proximity search of "Goliath within 6 words Septuagint" (without the quotation marks).

Logos 3 returned 6 articles:

Logos 4 only returned 3 articles:

Why does it seem like Logos 4 is less powerful in this scenario?

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John Bowling

P.S. None of the resources that showed a return in v.3 are missing in v.4.

Robert Pavich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32653#Comment_32653

John,

it appears that V3 was also using foot notes as a search hit...

V4 looks like it's all surface text...

In my mind...having a surface text hit in proximity to a foot note is not very useful....

Damian McGrath

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32653#Comment_32653

A couple are obviously false hits - one or other search term is in the footnote

John Bowling

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32661#Comment_32661

Thanks. However, all the hits in v3 did return what I was looking for: a comment on the textual variant of Goliath's height.

So I didn't see them as false hints and it was useful in at least one instance for me to know that the ESV had that information in one of its notes.

Damian McGrath

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32673#Comment_32673

I didn't see them as false hints

But, they are false hits - the two words are not within 6 words of each other.

John Bowling

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32673#Comment_32673

...Well, perhaps I shouldn't say "all" of them returned information on that variant (NIV, Word stdy...).

I suppose my question then would be: does L4 search footnotes?

John Bowling

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/32693#Comment_32693

Well I suppose that depends on how you see the virtual footnote as existing within the text...