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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P.S. None of the resources that showed a return in v.3 are missing in v.4.
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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....
Robert Pavich
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A couple are obviously false hits - one or other search term is in the footnote
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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.
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I didn't see them as false hints
But, they are false hits - the two words are not within 6 words of each other.
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...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?
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Well I suppose that depends on how you see the virtual footnote as existing within the text...
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