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I had just added six commentary volumes to my Bible search. I asked it a question about the fruit in the garden of Eden. The answer came back with sermons and Bible verses. Not one of the six new books was among the sources. The books were in the database. The search just did not pick them. The Need: A Source You Added Must Be Able to Appear If a new source never shows up, you cannot tell whether it is broken or simply ranked low. You only see the answer, and the answer looks fine. It is easy to think “the system works” and move on. ...

The Need: a book you want to search, but it is only paper I have a 19th-century commentary on the five books of Moses. It has six volumes. I wanted all of it inside my own search tool, so I could ask a question in Korean and get the commentary back as one of the sources. The usual way is to scan the pages and turn them into text. That worked badly for me, and the way it worked badly led to the cheaper answer. ...

I have a lot of Bible material that I cannot search together. Sermon recordings turned into text. A commentary that I scanned page by page. A few Bible translations. Each one has its own search, or no search at all. When I wonder “what did the Bible and the preachers say about this?”, I open four things and read. So I built one box where I type a question, and it answers using all of them, with a number after every claim that points to the exact source. ...