Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

Don Moody wrote:
> What I am addressing is the reality. The vast majority of PCs in the 
> UK come with Google installed.

That doesn't make sense. Google is a web-site, not a software program. 
(Although Google does offer a few programs, we're talking about search 
engines here.)

The "vast majority of PCs in the UK" come with Windows, whose default 
internet browser, Internet Explorer, has Microsoft's own MSN Search set 
as default search engine. If people search Google, it's because they've 
chosen to ignore MS's search options and type www.google.com/.co.uk into 
the browser's location bar.

The slightly smarter users install Firefox, which DOES have Google as 
the default search engine, but that's not normally the default, and 
isn't usually installed on delivery.

John
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