Doh! I didn't notice the year. DuckDuckGo is still a nice tool in the toolbox, however.
On Friday April 27 2012 14:04:43 Richard Esplin <[email protected]> wrote: > It isn't open source, but I turn to DuckDuckGo when Google lets me down: > > http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aplug.org+registrar > > The only link is the one you want. Of course you then need to search in your > browser through the very long archive for September. > > Richard > > > On Friday April 27 2012 12:08:22 Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/27/2012 10:54 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > On 04/27/2012 09:27 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Torrie<[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >>> I'm trying to find our last discussion on domain name registrars, but I > > >>> can't find a good way to search this list archives. Have I missed > > >>> anything on plug.org's site, or maybe my google fu is failing me? > > >> Just use Google. > > >> > > >> "site:plug.org rhel" > > > Are you suggesting "rhel" is a keyword that will return name registrar > > > threads? Cause I already tried "site:plug.org domain name registrars" > > > and got nothing relevant. I got a 2006 thread as the second hit. Not > > > terribly relevant anymore. When I tried to restrict the hits to last > > > year, google turns up nothing. I should try bing as Google is sucking > > > more and more at returning relevant links. Google used to be great for > > > linux results, > > > > I yearn for the days when my search page had only a simple text field, > > an image, and 2 search buttons; and when the result list was just as > > simple and helpful. Then they started sticking their fingers in > > everyone else's pie, tasting each one repeatedly. Now a 500MHz ARM > > processor isn't enough to render the simplified mobile search page in > > under 60 seconds, let alone the results. I'm beginning to think wading > > through the unsorted results from AOLs' original Webcrawler would be > > faster and easier. Or even surfing semi-random links directly. > > > > Yes, Google is now the Walmart of the Internets, and has gone down the > > series-of-tubes. I'm half tempted to start an open-source, distributed > > search engine akin to SETI@home. > > > > ;-Daniel Fussell <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
