Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

JJ206 wrote:
> 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.
> 

Google toolbar is NOT a search engine.  It is an interface that adds more
features to the ONLINE 
search engine.

> 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. 

And an EXECUTABLE is not a search engine on a web page.

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. 

I have yet to see any MS windows computer that came with a default home
page set to any thing other 
than Microsoft's proprietary crap.  Just because "some" manufacturers
preload the crapware Google 
Toolbar on their systems because they get paid to do so does not in any
way equate to "MOST" 
computers com with Google pre loaded.  (NOTE: for those of you using
Firefox, Google toolbar breaks 
Firefox and Google has no intention of fixing it.  It is crapware.)

Perhaps you should provide links to prove your point ?
> 
> Jonathan M.

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