Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

Jeff wrote:
> JJ206 wrote:
>> Jeff wrote:
>>> Don Moody wrote:
>>>> What I am addressing is the reality. The vast majority of PCs in the 
>>>> UK come with Google installed. 
>>>
>>> That isn't reality, it is plain wrong.
>>>
>>> 1: PCs DO NOT come with search engines "installed"
>>
>> Wow, you should google something before saying it.
>>
>> http://www.news.com/2100-1032_3-6077051.html
>>
>> Google terms I used were:
>>
>> dell  "google toolbar installed"
> 
> No need. I knew I was right. There is NO web search engine installed in 
> the cir***stances you describe, merely links to it.

Sorry you feel that you are correct. You are wrong. Google Toolbar is
an executable and is downloaded. Therefore if Dell, one of the larger
PC sellers sells their PCs "pre-installed" with Google Toolbar, then
it was installed at some point and you are in error. No big deal.

http://toolbar.google.com/T4/index.html

Click on the button and an install window comes up. If you install it,
it changes the program layout at the top of the browser. Try it and see.

Not sure where you learned computing, but an exe file is an executable
and is not the same as a web page that you enter somewhere as your 
search button. You seem to be confusing the two. Now you can say that HP
and Dell don't make very many computers, but you would be wrong there as
well. Perhaps you should provide links to prove your point ?

Jonathan M.