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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] (really nothing to do with) is John Hanson empire building again?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:05:39 +0000
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Malcolm Austen wrote:

> That's a perfectly proper URL - somwhere there's an RFC that says so!

the web crawlers stop with the ?

once you are on site you can use whatever pleases you
@@ is not uncommon but it's all DEEP WEB

I have corresponded with the GoONS webmaster
and I think too many are gripped by this english fear of being seen -
UK has the worst functioning web telephone books i have ever seen - no
global searches allowed

The Danish wwww.krak.dk even picks up middle names or if you put a phone
number in you get its owner.

while freebmd is delightful with its finesses, the same base on
ancestry.co.uk allows silly searches and is much much faster

on the 1891 site if you search Isle of Man with no names it does not
throw an error at you but returns how many names in that part of the index

1891 Isle of Man Census
(All parishes available)

Search > Census > UK Census Collection > 1891 Isle of Man Census
1891 Isle of Man Census has 55,771 matches for:

then it is up to the user to refine the search

Hugh W

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