Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:12:43 +0300, Renia <renia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote in soc.genealogy.misc:

>Denis Beauregard wrote:
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>> The conclusion would be that Google may adapt the search result to
>> yourself, to the language of your browser, to your previous search,
>> etc.  In my case, I saw my web site where it was not expected.
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>> I would not be surprised that the result for your search on my
>> computer would not be the same on your computer...
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>Doing a search for Denis Beauregard (exact phrase):
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>AltaVista found 93,700 results
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>Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 31,800 for "denis beauregard"
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>Yahooo: 1 - 10 of about 93,300 for " denis beauregard"

Unfortunately, google-dance-tool won't handle the quotes.  But
I tried the same search on my computer.

From qc.search.yahoo.com  (Quebec' Yahoo)

1 - 10 sur environ 91 400 pour " denis beauregard"

From altavista.com, 91 500 
From altavista.fr, 91 600

i.e. the value is not stable !

The actual number should be about 32 000, including my pages
(I put a copyright notice with my name on 31 000 pages) and
people sharing my name.  So Google is the more accurate here.

But site:francogene.com has only 3240 pages.
"denis beauregard" -site:francogene.com has the other 30 000.

most of them seem to be from newsgroups (copied to many many
servers) and there are many irrelevant pages, often copies
from blogs.  So in this case, maybe 4000 pages out of 30 000
are relevant (I would not count those from newsgroups).


Denis

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Denis Beauregard - 
Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/
French in North America before 1722 -
www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/
Sur cédérom à 1770 - On CD-ROM to 1770