Searches on Jan Tuxen's homepage

Google
FreeFind
Atomz
I have invoked a couple of remote search engines to crawl and index the files of my home page. If you prefer to search by keywords instead of surfing through the links, this may be a good option. I love good search engines myself. But let me give you one word of warning: Surveys have demonstrated that the chances of finding what you are looking for are actually lower when searching by keywords than by following links. There are probably more reasons for this, but an obvious one for genealogists is spelling. No search engine that I know of will be able to figure out that København, Kjøbenhavn, Kiøbenhavn, Kbhvn. and Kbh. all mean Copenhagen, but if you knew one of these spellings, you would probably recognize the others when seeing them yourself. If you think a name is spelled Miller and the actual spelling in the 18th century was Møller, Möller or Müller, the search engines will probably be of little or no value.
Anyway, if you know what you are looking for, they are fast and precise, so enjoy!
You may proceed by making simple searches in one of the boxes to the right, or you can read my description of the search engines, their characteristics and pros/cons below.

Google

In my opinion, Google is the finest search engine on the Internet. I base my opinion mainly on these characteristics:

In site searches Google does not do quite as well. Page Ranking does not really take effect in a small search space and sometimes it takes months for Google to discover that a particular page has been updated. But it is still a brilliant tool.



FreeFind

FreeFind searches all the HTML files (not the PDF files) on my home page and returns excerpts for each hit. In addition you can get a site map of my home page and you can ask FreeFind to monitor specific pages and alert you when they are modified.

  SiteMap

Atomz

Atomz can make simple searches for single keywords, but can also search for combinations of words and complete phrases. In addition, Atomz indexes both HTML and PDF files. As I have a number of PDF files on my home page, Atomz might be worthwhile trying. Relevant excerpts are displayed in search results, much like Google does it. Atomz is the search engine you invoke in my navigation bar on top of most of my older pages.