About
This Google Custom Search Research Tool
As we have continued our research for The People History we have found difficulty in finding the resources we used to be able to find using standard search engines, we set out to use the powerful technology of Google to help us create a Custom Search Engine using a few hundred web sites to start, Below are some of the resources we thought would be good to start with
- Public Radio and TV from US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- National Archives from countries we could find
- Top Universities from the US and other English speaking countries
Why No Wikipedia
All the major search engines feature Wikipedia at the top of the results and often give a summary of the information, plus during our testing Wikipedia results drowned out many of the other useful resources, this combined with the fact Princeton University whose results are included have built some clever technology that has created a powerful index of Wikipedia pages.
Personal Tips for better results Have Used The Oregon Trail in Examples
- If You Are Looking for something specific try putting quotes round it in the search box Example ["The Oregon Trail"]
- If You are searching and you find the results are dominated by a specific web site PBS or BBC ETC. put the following in the search box Example [The Oregon Trail -PBS]
- If you wish for a specific site to dominate results add it to your search query Example [The Oregon Trail National Archives]
Please consider helping
- Any tips for improving the results including web sites we should include
- Any other useful tips to help searchers
- Other Feedback more than happy to recieve
- If any of our visitors can help with this custom search with no adds please tell us
