Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:12:43 +0300, Renia <renia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Doing a search for Denis Beauregard (exact phrase):
> 
> and on a search for "beauregard genealogy" 
> 
> Altavista 332 results
> 
> Google 217 results


I searched both for "Growdon family tree" and google was better.

4 hits with google and only one with altavista.

I searched both for "Zollinger family tree" and altavista was barely
better.

14 for altavista and 11 for google.

Sometimes google is better and sometimes altavista is better.
Just depends on the last name. I would not send newbies to altavista
because it has less tools and is less well known. I also send newbies
to more well known family tree software, rather than sending them to
some less common one. Better to let newbies sift through some spam
and teach them how to recognize it. (Which they do pretty quickly and
then avoid.) Altavista might be good for a brick wall attempt at some
point, but my time is better spent at the national archives or at the
library locally.

Jonathan M.