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Google
Google, the search engine developed by Stanford University, is a
great search engine - the best search engine on the web. It indexes
phrases, so that a search can be made for example, for "Robert Burney"
(the quotation marks tell Google that you are looking only for that
phrase) and it will return the pages that contain that phrase. Other
search engines will return results from every page that has the word Robert
and the word Burney - so if you are searching the web, you will get lots
of pages with Robert and lots of pages of genealogy that have Burney on
them.
Google indexes pages more efficiently than any other search engine.
It will put together any words on a page that you searching for and show
you those words in the description on the results page. If someone
were to do a search for counselor Hong Kong - it will return my New page
among the results because of the list of countries on the very bottom of
the page. It is a very cool search engine.
The only detriment with Google is that I have no input into how
often they index the site - so it may be weeks before any new pages that
I post are added to the data base. As of March 11, 2001 as I am adding
Google
to my site they have 105 pages indexed for Joy2MeU (223 as of 12-04 - which
is pretty close to all of them that are available to be indexed, although
there are somewhere around 275 pages on the site.) Google is preset
to search the web, so that in order to search my site you will need to
click on the button next to
search Joy2MeU.com. |
FreeFind
I have now added FreeFind - which offers several advantages: I am
able to update the indexing at any time - which means as soon as I post
a new page, I can get it added to the site data base immediately; and it
allows includes a service for monitoring of a page. By signing up
to be notified any time the New page changes, you can keep current
on any changes or additions.
monitor link
If you click on the monitor link it will take you to a page where you can
enter your email address (which they say they never sell.) They do
give you the option of signing up for a bunch of different categories of
email advertising - which you can avoid by simply clicking on the Skip
button.
FreeFind also generates a site map, in three different versions
- but all three are basically just list of the pages, so the site index
page is a better bet for site map purposes. I am not sure how well the
What's New feature works yet - as right now it shows most of the pages
as new. FreeFind indexed the pages of my site that no other search engine
can - so includes the updates and second pages of longer articles, etc.
- a total of 176 pages (as of September 1, 2001.)
FreeFind results pages will include a banner advertisement on
the top of the page and a shopping search at the bottom. |
