I have my own search engine for my county page. I think it's great and it's makes searching the county page much much easier, but that's not what I was talking about. I mean something that would search ALL the county pages at once. You still have to be at my county page to use the search engine as it is now. Someone who has no clue their relatives migrated to such and such county will have no idea to look there. The way the bot for the search engine I use (and probably the one others use) takes your web page address and searches all files below that main thread you enter. What I'm trying to get across here is that if rootsweb made their own search engine (which they already have for the archives and other separate projects) and made the main stem be rootsweb.com, the bot would index everything below that. So everything below rootsweb.com, like rootsweb.com/~wigen.. /~wikewaun.. /~wirusk all down the line along with all the files below the county stems would be indexed. Each county would not have to be entered separate. The only problems I see with something like this is that I think rootsweb is selling web space to non-genealogy related sites. Also the people who don't have their county pages on a rootsweb server wouldn't be included for obvious reasons. On the plus side though, it would also index those personal sites that people have that ARE genealogy related. It could even be done on a state level, but a national level would be much better. Ah well, I suppose nothing will ever come of this anyway and it'll just be my responsibility to include the other projects more in my county page. (which is a good idea to begin with) but I still think we could come up with a better use of time. Melissa >From: "Kelly & the Flock" <kellyj@snowcrest.net> >Reply-To: <kellyj@snowcrest.net> >To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [WIGEN-L] Late Night Thinking >Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:21:12 -0700 > > >Actually Melissa, you can do your own search engine. I found this (Maybe >Tim >found this) and it works terrifically for my Monroe County, OH site... >which >does have a lot of data on it. > >http://www.picosearch.com/ > >This will index all of your pages, and then your pages are completely >searchable. It is also unobstrusive and doesn't require huge ads or any >ugly >things on your page <grin>. What you ask sounds simple, but the search >engine would have to be individually set up for each county. > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com