Re: Altavista better than Google for genealogy searches

Allen wrote:
> 
>> JJ206 wrote:
>>> Gene Y. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Google toolbar is NOT a search engine.  It is an interface that adds 
>>>> more features to the ONLINE search engine.
>>>
>>> Google Toolbar is part of the search engine.
>>
>> No, it's an interface to the search engine. To call it part is like 
>> saying the 10:15 from Twickenham to Waterloo is part of Waterloo. If 
>> it was part, then the search engine would lose functionality without 
>> its presence, which is ludicrous.
>>
>> John (the group's pedant today, it seems)
> How did people manage to use Google as a search engine for all that time

> before Google Toolbar was introduced? Was it magic? Delusion? Should I 
> throw out the information that I have gotten from Google because I don't

> use their Toolbar and therefore that information doesn't really exist? 
> You tell us, please, JJ206.
> Allen

*sigh* My analogy is clear. Google Toolbar, the google.com webapge, and 
google advanced search page are all different lenses looking thru the 
same telescope. I never said Google Toolbar was the only lens to look at 
the data from. Is that better ?

Jonathan M.