Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:23:48 +0100, John Prentice
<john.prentice@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Allen wrote:
>> How did people manage to use Google as a search engine for all that
time 
>> before Google Toolbar was introduced? 
>
>They used to type, with their fingers. Now they can use the mouse 
>instead. With - um - their fingers. And the added benefit of losing some 
>of the page-viewing area to a toolbar!
>
>John (who doesn't see the point of the Google Toolbar, either)

I've got the basics . . .
Search | Search Images | Search News | Google Maps | Google Earth
much of the other stuff is "fluff". (IMHO)