Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

And then there is the game called googlewhack [sp?] in which users try 
combinations of two words that will result in only one hit. In 2003 
someone emailed me out of the blue to re****t that my Ahern website was the

only page on the Internet in which the words "tonsorial" and "dungarvan" 
could be found. In running this search again, I find that there are now at

least seven such pages. 

I find it personally interesting that if I Google Ahern, my Ahern 
genealogy website is the third website listed on the first page, but if I 
search for Ahern on AltaVista, what comes up on the first page is a link 
to a personal website on which I have links to some of my pages and 
nothing else, which hasn't been updated for several years. I also find 
completely different results on images for Ahern. 

Yahoo also goes to the personal page on world.std.com on the first page, 
but not the Ahern genealogy page on rootsweb. AskJeeves.com doesn't show 
either one on the first page of results. 

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    Dennis Ahern            |   The Ahern Family Genealogy Website
    Acton, Massachusetts    |   http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/
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