Improvements to the search engine for hymns

Thanks so much.!  I just tried a search for "Savior like a shepherd", knowing that at least some hymnals with the hymn that starts like that spell it differently and have a comma in there, and it found them!

We just pushed out some updates to the sorting priorities in search - increased the weight to song lyrics. Test it out and let us know what you think. 

Thank you so much for addressing this. Unfortunately, it seems the problem isn't entirely fixed. A perfect example that still fails is the hymn "Now and Then" from the ZH. If I search for "Sing praise to God all ye that love the Savior", which is exactly the first line if the hymn, sand the comma and old spelling of "Savior", it doesn't find it. 

Agreed. The current search behavior is not ideal. Unfortunately, fixing this issue is actually a much bigger deal than one would expect. I don't remember the technical explanation from the developers, but they'd basically have to rewrite the entire search functionality. So it is on our list of future improvements to consider, but it is well behind other higher priority items.

I echo this request. An example of this is when searching "Hark the herald angels sing," nothing comes up. But when you put an exclamation point after "hark," then it pops up. Kind of confusing when you're trying to search for something, have triple-checked the spelling, but still get no search results because of one absent exclamation point! Of course, being able to filter by hymnbook in the new version alleviates this issue somewhat, but I agree it would still be nice to have the search be a bit more forgiving. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into this.

This is good feedback. We will check with the developers to see what it will take to fix that.