In the last few years I've had better luck using wiki as a search engine than using google; even though google allegedly has syntax for restricting the search, it still gives lots of hits that don't match; a "smart" search of the "Do what I want in some alternate universe rather than what's in my search string" flavor.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rant I love Google. I use it all the time, both professionally and personally. But I'm a realist. I know Google is not in this game out of altruism. To answer your question more or less, it is sad to say I use about four methods of finding z documentation -- not because I like variety, but because each is about a 70-80% solution. (BookManager, PDFs resident on my notebook, KnowledgeCenter and Google) Maybe IBM should rename it KnowledgeCensor. (If that name catches on, you heard it here first.) Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rant On 4/05/2018 4:36 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > I saw the most wonderful quote the other day, regarding free services (like > Google, but not to pick on them in particular). > > "If you're not paying for it, then you're not the customer. And if you're > not the customer, you're the merchandise." Most people here would be paying IBM for software licenses, so are indirectly paying for documentation i.e. Knowledge Center. Is the search you're paying for better than the free Google one? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
