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Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

by Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 17, 2008 at 02:47 PM

Steve Hayes wrote:
> It seems that Altavista is much better than Google for genealogical
searches. 
> 
> A distant cousin is organising a GROWDEN family reunion, and I have a
GROWDEN
> family web page, and was trying to see what there was on the family on
the
> web.
> 
> I entered "Growden family Growdon" (both spellings are used) in both
Google
> and Altavista (http://www.altavista.com)
and Altavista returned far more
> relevant results on the first page. My page dedicated to Growden family
> history did not show up on the first couple of Google pages at all, but
it was
> the first one on Altavista. It also appeared on the first page on
Dogpile
> (http://www.dogpile.com).


  "Google is your friend"  = RTFM

but Steve nowhere in this thread do you state your target URL

if you use  a better search string

Growden  Growdon  Steve Hayes
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=Growden++Growdon++Steve+Hayes&btnG=Search

http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/GROWDON.HTM
 has a horrible voice and a 
pop up too

and an endless banner download at oddcast.com


your text is missing the word

genealogy

headers are reasonable
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Growden family</TITLE>
<meta Name="Description" Content="Growdon or Growden family: 
Genealogical research into the Growdon (Growden, Grouden) families, of 
Cornwall, South Africa, UK, Canada, Australia & New Zealand and
elsewhere">
<meta Name="Keywords" Content="Growdon, Growden, Grouden, family 
history, genealogy, genealogical research, Cornwall, Bodmin Moor">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">


Welcome...
This is a new home page for Steve and Val Hayes of Tshwane, South Africa.

     For reasons beyond our control we were forced to move our family 
web pages, and since it will take some time to get everything linked and 
working again, we are starting off with this new home page with basic 
information. You may find our old home page here, but many of the links 
may not work yet.

strange message
that page is missing the word

"tree"
and any meta data

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
 has some of the best meta data 
anywhere especially the dscription whih google loves

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=Growden++Growdon++Steve+Hayes&kgs=1&kls=0

=============

compare
http://www.altavista.com/web/adv
with
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

and
http://www.altavista.com/about/
with
http://www.google.com/about.html
and
http://www.google.com/options/index.html

http://code.google.com/

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/


oh dear


Hugh W






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Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches
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