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Search Engines for Genealogical Research (view source)
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A search engine 'crawls' or 'spiders' the web based on what is already there. If a new link is added to a website somewhere, and it is not already in the search engine's database of sites it searches, the search engine will go to that link and 'spider' it for its contents and add the page or entire site to its database, index its contents, and make that site's contents available for searching by way of the search engine. This can happen anywhere from once a month to daily depending upon how frequently that site is updated. | A search engine 'crawls' or 'spiders' the web based on what is already there. If a new link is added to a website somewhere, and it is not already in the search engine's database of sites it searches, the search engine will go to that link and 'spider' it for its contents and add the page or entire site to its database, index its contents, and make that site's contents available for searching by way of the search engine. This can happen anywhere from once a month to daily depending upon how frequently that site is updated. | ||
No two search engines contain the exact same database. Any one search engine may contain listings of sites that another search engine has missed. So if you do not find an ancestor in one search engine, try another, or better yet, try a compiled search engine, or 'metacrawler'. | No two search engines contain the exact same database. Any one search engine may contain listings of sites that another search engine has missed. So if you do not find an ancestor in one search engine, try another, or better yet, try a compiled search engine, or 'metacrawler'. | ||
=== Genealogy Search Engines === | |||
*[http://www.mocavo.com/ Mocavo] - launched in March 2011. Read reviews by [http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/03/mocavocom-a-genealogy-search-engine.html Dick Eastman], [http://www.genealogymedia.com/2011/03/16/mocavo Jordan Jones], & [http://tinyurl.com/mocavo1 Randy Seaver]. | |||
*[http://searches.linkpendium.com/websearch.html Linkpendium's Genealogical Data Search] | |||
=== Major Search Engines === | === Major Search Engines === | ||
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*[http://www.bing.com Bing] | *[http://www.bing.com Bing] | ||
*[http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo] | *[http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo] | ||
*[http://www.ask.com/ Ask | *[http://www.ask.com/ Ask] | ||
=== Compiled Search Engines (Metacrawlers) === | === Compiled Search Engines (Metacrawlers) === | ||
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=== Tips for Searching === | === Tips for Searching === | ||
Most search engines now have different sections for research, such as web records, images, videos, maps, etc. When researching information in books, try using the WEB function first, as it will also provide you with documents, articles and papers not included in the BOOKS function. <br> | Most search engines now have different sections for research, such as web records, images, videos, maps, etc. When researching information in books, try using the WEB function first, as it will also provide you with documents, articles and papers not included in the BOOKS function. <br> | ||
=== Additional Resources === | === Additional Resources === | ||