On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 12:31 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > in the mailing list guidelines I see a sentence 'search ... in > > google.com or any other search engines. Although I am not sure > whether > > there is a viable foss search engine, ilugc should not promote a a > > non-free search engine by name. And if it must, how about this: > > > > http://duckduckgo.com/ > > Could you please let us know why Duck Duck Go is a more sane > alternative to Google? > > I presume you refer to the fact that they don't store cookies, IP > addresses and personal information. But database wise, they still > depend on Yahoo's BOSS.
actually my point is that ilugc should not recommend google (or duckduckgo for that matter) The rule should be: use a search engine before asking questions. I am not going to argue in favour of duckduckgo - except to say that it gives me much better and accurate results than I get from Google. And it looks free-er than google to me. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
