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From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <>
Subject: [GenTips] Search Engine for Ships to LA is working now
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:48:00 -0400


Hi everyone

Thanks to visitor Frank Gebhart, I have been able to fix a
rather huge problem on Olive Tree Genealogy's custom search
engine for searching passenger lists to New Orleans.

This is a custom search engine I set up to search multiple
websites (not just mine) for passenger lists to New
Orleans.

Frank used that search engine but wrote to me to point out
that it seemed impossible that only 10 BROWN names came up
on a search of the 528 online ships.

I usually have the spiders do their indexing of the search
engines off-line, because an on-line indexing is time
consuming for me.This time I had an on-line one done so I
could watch, and get real-time error messages.

Bingo! Culprit found, error message given, and the next
task was for me to try to find a way around the problem.

I found that over 300 ships were missed by the crawler. So
that means visitors were really only searching about 200
ships, not the 528 I listed.

It took quite a while, but I have now fixed the problem
(thanks Frank for your eagle eye!) and wanted to let
everyone know that if you used the yellow framed search
engine labelled "Search FREE Ships Passenger Lists to
Louisiana" at

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_la.shtml

in the last 6 months, you were not searching all 528 ships -
- so please go back and try your search again!

It's about 3 screens down the page, right in the middle.

Sorry for the confusion and if anyone got a negative result
(no hits) on that search engine, please give it another
try. Now all ships on it are working and being indexed just
fine.

The joys of computers! :-)

Lorine

Lorine McGinnis Schulze
--
* The Olive Tree Genealogy
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/
* Naturalization Records
http://naturalizationrecords.com/
* USA Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/

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