Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

On Tue, 20 May 2008 09:33:20 +0100, John Prentice
<john.prentice@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>A good search engine won't just present you with 10,000 hits in random 
>order, it will give you what it "thinks" is the best order for you. If 
>it does it both honestly (putting the commercially-interesting ones 
>first is what killed Altavista) and accurately, it's a far more useful 
>engine, even if another engine gives you 12,000.

Quite, and now the boot is on the other foot, since it now seems to be
Google
that presents the commercial ones first rather than Altavista. 
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Steve Hayes
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