Miller: Ideas on knocking down genealogy’s brick walls.

Source: http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com
Julie Miller
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Brick walls are a common topic of conversation among genealogists. Brick walls occur, quite simply, when we are stuck on a problem and don’t know where to go for a solution.

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PARKOUR: A sport or athletic activity in which the participant seeks to move quickly and fluidly through an area, often an urban locale, by surmounting obstacles such as walls and railings and leaping across open spaces, as in a stairwell or between buildings.

 

Bing vs. Google for genealogists!

Source: http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2009/06/bing-vs-google.html

Dear READERS,There has been much ado about the new Microsoft search engine “Bing” attempting to give “Google” a run for its money. I don’t think Microsoft can stand that anyone else is #1. Somewhere I read that Bing was focusing search algorithms efforts to work specifically on news, entertainment, sports and local search improvements. (Cannot find the link for that info, sorry.) But apparently the $80-100 million spent by Microsoft for advertising Bing may work, since Garrett Rogers of ZDnet thinks “Bing passes Yahoo, steals share from Google?”

THINKING OUT LOUD
In Ol’ Myrt’s opinion Bing isn’t as good with results yet when compared to Google, and of COURSE Bing doesn’t include GoogleBook results in the search. Those Google Book results are important in my personal family history research and probably are in yours if you have US ancestral research.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected. ~ Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues