Search engine comparison for genealogy terms

[Bill Cribbs]

Hi all,
After all these years on the web, I just recently
found out about alltheweb.com and boy was I pleasantly
surprised!
Just out of curiosity, I did an informal survey
between the two best search engines (IMHO) to see how
they compare with genealogy search words. I wanted
to see how many total pages were indexed for each one.
You may be surprised at the results:

SEARCH WORD(S) GOOGLE.COM ALLTHEWEB.COM
============== ========== =============
marriages 6,240,000 8,690,000
obituaries 55,400,000 39,600,000
"death notices" 2,620,000 4,200,000
"marriage records" 848,000 877,000
"ship passenger lists" 910 2,070
"census transcription" 361,000 28,200
"birth records" 388,000 692,000

Now when you put a surname in with the phrase, you
can also see which one produces the most results.
I've been using Google all this time...and probably
still will, but I can see now that I've been missing
out on a very good resource with AllTheWeb.com.
Hope this research helps someone else as it has me.
Bill
GenealogyBuff.com
http://www.genealogybuff.com

[Denis Beauregard]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:36:57 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bill
Cribbs) wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

SEARCH WORD(S) GOOGLE.COM ALLTHEWEB.COM
============== ========== =============
marriages 6,240,000 8,690,000

....


One difference can be that google will find a page
even if the searched word is not there, i.e. it can be
in the description of a link.

If you type genealogy and a name, you can find pages
where the genealogy word is missing.


Denis

[Hugh Watkins]

Google does not search all pages on many sites

archiver on rootsweb for example
the body of your message is not indexed


http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id ... ALL&query=
my free search is also liited on server side by lack of storage space
m
unless I pay LOL


Hugh W

============= testing ===================

compare
http://alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs= ... _lang=pref
1 - 37 of 138 Results for dnkcen


Results 1 - 93 of about 694 for dnkcen
then

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some
entries very similar to the 93 already displayed.

If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results
included.<< click !

http://www.google.com/search?q=dnkcen&n ... 1&filter=0
Results 1 - 100 of about 173 for dnkcen


================================
site:www.rootsweb.com dnkcen efternavn
google
Results 1 - 32 of 32 from http://www.rootsweb.com for dnkcen efternavn

alltheweb
1 - 8 of 8 Results for site:www.rootsweb.com dnkcen efternavn

surnames - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Æ Ø Å -
efternavn
there are 29 pages of surnames





On Apr 9, 2005 4:32 AM, Denis Beauregard <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:36:57 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bill
Cribbs) wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

SEARCH WORD(S) GOOGLE.COM ALLTHEWEB.COM
============== ========== =============
marriages 6,240,000 8,690,000

...

One difference can be that google will find a page
even if the searched word is not there, i.e. it can be
in the description of a link.

If you type genealogy and a name, you can find pages
where the genealogy word is missing.

--
My Blogs
GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/

search my sites
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id ... query=&t=s