Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

"Kay Robinson" <Kay_Robinson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:41:11 +0100, John Prentice
> <john.prentice@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sharpened a new quill and
> scratched:
>
>>Renia wrote:
>>> John Prentice wrote:
>>>> A good search engine won't just present you with 10,000 hits in
random
>>>> order, it will give you what it "thinks" is the best order for you.
If
>>>> it does it both honestly (putting the commercially-interesting ones
>>>> first is what killed Altavista) and accurately, it's a far more
useful
>>>> engine, even if another engine gives you 12,000.
>>>
>>> Quite. You have to know how to manipulate your search engine.
>>
>>Now, I'd argue quite the opposite! A really well-designed,
>>well-implemented search engine shouldn't need manipulation - it should
>>give you what you need, when you want it, without having to be tweaked
>>and prodded and its normal behaviour cir***vented.
>
> Yep, and we'll get that soon enough when the 'powers for good' have
> the population microchipped as standard. At least we'll be able to
> dispense with keyboards then though LOL
>
> Kay

What?  You mean you don't have voice-activated internet and word
processing 
yet?   "Search....Robinson...Genealogy"   "Google Maps... Cleveland...234 
Main St"     "email to mother........."