On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:03:42PM -0700, Jason Barnett wrote: > you might want to try www.dogpile.com. It is a meta-search engine, so more > difficult for any one search provider to skew the results. > Also, it appears that the "+" and "-" search modifiers do affect the > results. I am not sure if it is because of something that Dogpile does or > if one or more of the search engines it uses respects those modifiers.
Thanks, but dogpile still presents way too many irrelevant results to dig through. It's like going to a store for a Washington apple, and getting entire agricultural output of the Pacific Northwest. That will certainly include the apple you want ... eventually. If you are looking for a Washington apple +blue, you get the same long list of results, when you should get few or none. Google is actually more parsimonious than most. Free search results are tempting, but there is no place to get free extra minutes (or hours, or days, or years) added to my life. I can add minutes by exercise, but I'm not doing that when I'm chained to a screen and a web browser. Someday you will be old, watching the last of the sand slip through the hourglass, and regret the time you wasted on inconsequential distraction when you were young. My time waste fraction has increased substantially as search engines have "evolved". Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
