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From: "Peggy Baldwin at Family Passages" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Publishing Online: What Do You Do and Why?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 19:56:32 -0700
References: <a06240804c81ee8d47e30@[192.168.1.2]> <4BFB1E65.7030303@wvi.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BFB1E65.7030303@wvi.com>


First of all, if you enter the words "richard" and "taylor" and "yarmouth"
you will not necessarily get Richard Taylor Yarmouth. You'll get richard,
taylor, and yarmouth anywhere on the page. Also, WorldConnect and most parts
of Ancestry (and many other web sites) is what we call the deep web, meaning
that they are invisible to external search engines. I believe that the only
thing from Ancestry that a Google search will find are articles about
genealogy, not items in their database.

Peggy

Peggy Baldwin, MLS
Family Passages LLC
www.family-passages.com
503-916-9410
Pacific Northwest & Oregon Trail


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Sue
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Subject: Re: [TGF] Publishing Online: What Do You Do and Why?

On 5/23/2010 7:34 AM, Jillaine Smith wrote:
> A few responses:
>
> 1. Based on the Google search results of Richard Taylor Yarmouth, I
> would suppose that WorldConnect is not indexed by Google.
>

Choose "Advance Search" from the google search page (small letters just
to the right of the search terms entry box).

Put
Richard Taylor Yarmouth
in the exact phrase box on the advanced search page.

enter
ancestry.com
in the
Search within a site or domain
entry box.

You will get approximately 1900+ hits from within ancestry's domains.

This technique allows you to search many domains with google's search
technology, rather than whatever the site uses. It can be extremely
worthwhile on many sites, and not so great on others.Just try it out.

Sue

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