Comments on: Google Timelines http://www.foundhistory.org/2007/06/07/google-timelines/ by Tom Scheinfeldt Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mw http://www.foundhistory.org/2007/06/07/google-timelines/comment-page-1/#comment-6586 mw Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:52:58 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2007/06/07/google-timelines/#comment-6586 http://tl.historiaimedia.org - Google Timelines generator http://tl.historiaimedia.org – Google Timelines generator

]]> By: Mills http://www.foundhistory.org/2007/06/07/google-timelines/comment-page-1/#comment-5852 Mills Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:57:57 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2007/06/07/google-timelines/#comment-5852 Thanks for writing this up Tom. I tried two other examples, Vaclav Havel, and myself. The Havel timeline wasn't bad, but the one for me was. Why? Because it included a lot of results from decades before I was born (dates picked up from articles I've written that have since been posted online) and from websites (like CHNM's) where my name appears. So, for instance, my timeline has a lot of activity in the 1980s, but that's from the bios of various colleagues in the history department. So I think this is a good start by Google, but, like their search results, still has a way to go before it gives us what we were really looking for. Thanks for writing this up Tom. I tried two other examples, Vaclav Havel, and myself. The Havel timeline wasn’t bad, but the one for me was. Why? Because it included a lot of results from decades before I was born (dates picked up from articles I’ve written that have since been posted online) and from websites (like CHNM’s) where my name appears. So, for instance, my timeline has a lot of activity in the 1980s, but that’s from the bios of various colleagues in the history department.

So I think this is a good start by Google, but, like their search results, still has a way to go before it gives us what we were really looking for.

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