Explanation & Strategy

Most searches use parameters which are displayed with the results like:

In this case the results must contain meul or mill and are limited to South African websites only (.za).
You can modify this text the same way as during normal searching.

United Kingdom (.uk) indicates that only websites who end at --.--.uk will be searched.
USA (.us.com.edu.gov.org.net) will search all websites ending at --.us --.com --.edu --.gov --.org --.net.

As far as I know, the words used for water- and windmill are the same in the Chinese and Japanese languages.
I used 水车 or 水車 and 风车 or 風車 for both searches and distinguish between them by using site:.cn and site:.jp.

Do you see: □□, ____ or ØÀÒáÀÍÀ in stead of , or ?

To correct this problem you need to install extra UNICODE fonts in your computer.
In Windows: Start, Control Panel, Language, Add other Languages, Advanced, here you can add more languages. Windows does not yet support all languages in the world, for these unsupported languages you need to download special fonts: (for instance: Informatiekunde, VBA, Unicodes, Translation, HTML, Internet, Windows, Browsers, MS Office, Fonts, Talen, Vertalen) See also Chinese computing.
Internet Explorer gives the best results if you select: View, Encoding, þAuto-Select (on).
Fonts used bij www.timsmills.info can be obtained from: Download Link

t r e a d m i l l search is with COUNTRY as a variable and is build up as follows:
COUNTRY Shaduf OR Shadoof OR Saqiya OR Noria OR "water lifting" OR "water wheel" OR treadle OR "chain pump" OR archimedean OR treadwheel.

Google limits each search to a maximum of 1000 results but often it finds much more. Which results are showed, Google uses a "secret" algorithm.

Fore instance Google gives Websites more chance to be included in the first 1000 results the more links Google finds to that Website in other Websites.

Probably the mill you are interested in is Google's result 194.382 which is not displayed within the first 1000 results.

Some ideas how to get the most important results for you out of the millions Google finds......

Use more then one word in your search specification (example: Tunisia oil mill history)
Use the same words in other languages (example: for Switzerland, use: French, Italian and German)
Limit your search by domain with the (site:) parameter, see Table 1 (site:.com - site:.org - site:.net - site:.uk)
Use quotes "animal driven mills" or write oil mill in stead of oilmill (without a space)
"Search within results" (Google option at every search result page bottom)
Switch in the Google menu between Images and Web (for text-based-search)
Use the Dictionary of Molinology and look for key-words in mill literature
Use translation-websites: Complete Texts and Word Translators
Use OR, NOT (written in capitals) or select "Advanced Image Search" to adjust search parameters

EXAMPLE:
Tunesia:
Two languages are used in Tunesia; Arabic and French.
The French word for Tunisia = Tunisie (the use of Tunesia gives less results)
search: tunisie mill
search: tunisie huilerie OR huile
search: tunisie moulin: (A search in Arabic language limited to site:.tn gives no results as far as we know.)

Improving the number of results from Google

Google will not give you more than 1000 results in Images or Web mode. At the end the following text appears:
In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 698 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
(Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query.)
If you press the link, the search starts again and you will get all results to a maximum of 1000.
A search for "mill" in all domains gives 909.000 Images results (Nov. 2005). Google is showing you only the first 1.000 (most important results)! Spreading your search across different domains (see Table 1) will increase your results for "mill" to 4.000.
An Images search for mill, moulin, ....... 风车 OR 風車, 水车 OR 水車 ......., and noria in different domains gives the following results:

Domain

mill

moulin

mühle

molen

molino

风车 or

風車

mulino

水车 or

水車

mlyn

noria

.cn 667 77 5 1 12 807 1 364 1 3

.jp 21.000 3.350 30 298 105 25.100 68 15.500 2 3.370

.aero 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

.biz 884 143 37 28 57 35 26 10 36 8

.com 649.000 119.000 7.330 4.770 17.200 8.790 5.720 4.480 2.110 5.520

.coop 25 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 0 0

.cz 2.270 1.720 288 196 49 0 31 0 7.450 25

.de 10.800 4.690 68.500 694 896 19 646 7 419 170

.edu 35.500 945 49 62 290 5 5 1 17 68

.es 558 374 9 39 3.790 0 5 0 0 416

.fr 3.740 54.800 104 50 139 5 45 1 3 299

.gov 5.800 41 11 18 17 1 0 0 3 5

.info 3.680 659 487 737 327 71 115 130 575 49

.int 57 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

.it 3.660 851 600 11 5.130 2 15.600 2 4 366

.mil 726 2 0 0 20 0 2 0 0 0

.museum 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0

.name 58 7 3 3 0 4 1 0 0 0

.net 40.000 9.310 883 858 2.420 938 1.970 693 460 474

.nl 5.200 3.020 152 27.800 259 32 130 0 635 56

.org 130.000 11.000 691 566 2.970 301 723 210 333 392

.pro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

All 909.000 260.000 117.000 57.200 45.200 42.000 26.700 22.600 18.200 14.400

Google 4.000 4.659 4.061 4.161 5.327 3.310 3.838 3.407 3.368 3.166

Table 1; Google's Images results between different domains. (Nov. 2005)
Only the green fields in Table 3 are interesting.
The total Google result numbers at the bottom line represent the maximal number of results
you can obtain from Google by spreading your search across these different domains.

Council | Membership | Search-Mills Worldwide | Search-TIMS-website | Mill Dictionary

WebMasters: Gerald Bost

, Berlin, Germany & Wiard Beek

, Voorburg, Netherlands