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[BaptizedBeliever]

I've been having issues with the "search" bar here at BibleSupport.  For example, I typed in Far Above All in the search box, made sure it was set on e-Sword downloads, and it came up with zero results.  However, I uploaded the "Far Above All" translation over a year ago, and found it in my list of uploads.  Peter P also uploaded the MySword version, and it didn't show up in the search either.  Is this an effort by the folks who run the ip board program to force people to use the now-default Google search? (which, by the way, is really annoying).

 

-Brad

[Tim Butterfield]

I've been having issues with the "search" bar here at BibleSupport.  For example, I typed in Far Above All in the search box, made sure it was set on e-Sword downloads, and it came up with zero results.  However, I uploaded the "Far Above All" translation over a year ago, and found it in my list of uploads.  Peter P also uploaded the MySword version, and it didn't show up in the search either.  Is this an effort by the folks who run the ip board program to force people to use the now-default Google search? (which, by the way, is really annoying).

 

-Brad

 

Google search has been the default search here for some time, I agree that it is very annoying to have to keep changing it, especially since most browsers have a web search engine easily accessible in their tool bar.  

 

The default should be (in my not so humble opinion) e-Sword downloads, but then others may prefer mysword downloads or help files depending upon what their needs are most of the time.

[Josh Bond]

The Google Search was a Google search of our downloads section. Rather than querying our database, it was querying Google's index of our website. But it was creating more problems than it was solving.

 

So now the default search says "Downloads" and queries our own database. The built-in search algorithm isn't nearly as good. But Google wasn't showing all of our results. (When there was an e-Sword and MySword upload of the same content, Google would show only one or the other, probably thinking one was duplicate content).