Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-05 Thread Mike Hochee
al Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 9:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Search engine (retitled) Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. DDG is an amalg

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 7/5/20 1:12 AM, Arthur wrote: If you turn off CSS, it's right there on the page. If you have CSS on, it's more complicated. I forget where it is, but it's hidden and requires two or three clicks to get to it. Or, as someone else pointed out, "If you put &tbs=li:1 at the end of your search UR

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-05 Thread Arthur
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 00:26:55 -0600, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:) Grant Taylor wrote: On 7/4/20 8:56 PM, Arthur wrote: I use DDG, and I don't think it's an amalgamater. But if you're just looking for "search for the words I asked for", you can click "verbatim" on Google. And if, lik

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 7/4/20 8:56 PM, Arthur wrote: I use DDG, and I don't think it's an amalgamater. But if you're just looking for "search for the words I asked for", you can click "verbatim" on Google. And if, like me, you run without cookies and without logging in, the results should be impartial. Where is

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
A.EDU Subject: Re: Search engine (retitled) On 4 Jul 2020 18:58:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:) sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >DDG is an amalgamater; it retains the spurious hits from, >e.g., google. It's good for what it does, but it's not a >"do wh

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Arthur
On 4 Jul 2020 18:58:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:) sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote: DDG is an amalgamater; it retains the spurious hits from, e.g., google. It's good for what it does, but it's not a "do what I asked for" search engine. I use DDG, and I don't think it

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Mike Hochee
:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 9:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Search engine (retitled) Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. DDG is an amalgamater; it retains the spurious hits from, e.g., google. It

Re: Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Hochee [mike.hoc...@aspg.com] Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 9:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Search engine (retitled) " Did I mention that I hate google? I wish that there were a real search engine, one where I would be

Search engine (retitled)

2020-07-04 Thread Mike Hochee
" Did I mention that I hate google? I wish that there were a real search engine, one where I would be a customer rather than a product and in which I only got hits that matched my search criteria." I use https://duckduckgo.com/ whenever possible, and google when I have to. -Original Messa