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AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
MARCH
2011
NEW
GENEALOGY SEARCH ENGINE
Forwarded
From Trenton Donauschwaben
New
Free Genealogy Search Engine
Wednesday,
March 16, 2011
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by Dennis Bauer |
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Free
genealogy search engine Mocavo.com launches
Posted by Jamie
The world's largest free genealogy search engine, Mocavo.com,
launched today, providing family historians access to free
genealogy content on the web.
Search
engines like Google rank results by popularity, how recently the
webpage was posted and how many times the webpage is linked to.
But genealogy content may not be often linked to or refreshed
regularly, so it may fall to the bottom of the rankings. Unlike
other search engines, Mocavo.com's search results are indexed by
people who chose exactly want the engine crawls. This allows
users to tap into content that would be hard to find on Google.
Mocavo.com includes billions of names, dates and places
worldwide, seeking to index all free online genealogy
information. Rootsweb, Archive.org, Allen County Public Library,
Library of Congress, National Archives, Ellis Island, Find A
Grave, various U.S. state archives, and tens of thousands of
genealogy sites built by individuals are already searchable
through Mocavo.com.
“Mocavo.com has the capacity to index every single piece of
free genealogy content found anywhere on the web, and will be
growing by leaps and bounds in the coming months”, said Cliff
Shaw, the online genealogy heavyweight behind Mocavo.com, the
Smart Matching algorithm, GenForum, GenCircles, Family Tree
Legends and BackUpMyTree.com. “We expect Mocavo.com to shortly
offer all of the web’s free genealogy information, searchable
and accessible to all -- something that has never been done
before."
Mocavo.com also crawls free message boards on Ancestry.com, but
does not return results for premium content, like census images.
Mocavo.com is working to index FamilySearch content.
Click here to search Mocavo.com.
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About
Mocavo:
The world’s largest free genealogy search engine,
Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free
genealogy content on the web including billions of names,
dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and
make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy
information.
While Mocavo.com discovers new sites every day, some of
the existing sites searchable on Mocavo.com include
genealogy message boards, family trees, state and local
historical societies, the Library of Congress, National
Archives, Ellis Island, Find A Grave, the Internet
Archive, various U.S. state archives, and many tens of
thousands of genealogy sites built by individuals. Similar
to other search engines, Mocavo.com honors site owners by
linking directly to their content. |
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