On 10/03/2026 11:56 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
On 3/10/26 23:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/03/2026 10:05 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
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I expect that using a web search engine such as the one that is one
of the Borg's, would indicate a publicly accessible localised Linux
Users Group for most locations.
To what search engine do you refer?
The one with the goggles - "We are watching you and your searches and
wherever you go on the Web". The Goggle Borg...
For a less sinister web search engine, is duckduckgo, which includes in
its results,
https://www.reddit.com/r/springfieldMO/comments/ar0y1i/linux_user_group/
As a person who has been around computers since the original difference
engine (from the time of analogue computers, which preceded digital
computers, and were used for solving differential equations, I believe),
I had expected that you would have known of web search engines and how
to use them. I am not sure whether archie and gopher are still in use.
For more information about search engines, see
https://archive.org/details/findingitoninter0000gils
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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I do know search engines -- for a while I played with coming up with
productive search strings when people posted they couldn't find info.
I'm familiar with the increasing dearth of formal computer groups in
Springfield.
