Is there an alternative to freenet? Freenet is cool, but too much kiddie porn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:58 AM, M Spizzirri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caust12@yahoo.com">caust12@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello all;<br>
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If you like the relevance and efficiency of google, but not their questionable tracking and privacy issues, you can use <a href="http://www.scroogle.org/" target="_blank">http://www.scroogle.org/</a> .<br>
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--Mark<br>
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From: Lewis G Rosenthal <<a href="mailto:lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com">lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Lilug] The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture<br>
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On 02/10/09 11:06 am, Peter Capazzi thus wrote :<br>
> IMHO - Google is the best one-stop shop for just about everything. Page searches is one thing... I like to do price comparisons with Google Shopping... Maps is great and I get a kick out of using the API. I used to be big fan of searching newsgroups through them, but I think web pages now turn up more relevant information.<br>
> However, if I come across one site that beats one of the facets of Google I'd probably use it primarily. Like if I'm aware of a site that I can do comparison shopping with that is simpler or farther reaching than Google Shopping I'd use it exclusively.<br>
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> I don't see how... but if some site did web page searches better than Google I would use both until I was sure I was getting better results. I would sacrifice some ease of use... but not much.<br>
> I thought there was a woman out there (ex-Google employee?) that was going to start her own search engine. Funny that if you put in Search Engine as a search term the first entry from Google is Dogpile Web Search.<br>
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> I personally wonder who will be the first to volunteer to stop<br>
> using Google. In my experience, it's the only search engine<br>
> that finds exactly what I'm looking for almost every time.<br>
> Its not about volunteering to stop using google, at least not in<br>
> the way you seem to be thinking. I'm not suggesting taking the GNU<br>
> approach of we will rewrite a perfectly good system so we can<br>
> control it. Something will come along that is better than google,<br>
> and it probably won't be a search engine like we think of them<br>
> today. People will "volunteer" to stop using google the way they<br>
> "volunteer" to use google today. Not as some sort of sacrifice,<br>
> but because its in their best immediate interest.<br>
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> We already have plenty of websites that copy wikipedia (where<br>
> google often takes you) verbatim. and plenty of websites like<br>
> <a href="http://answers.com" target="_blank">answers.com</a> <<a href="http://answers.com" target="_blank">http://answers.com</a>> and stackoverflow that use<br>
> crowdsourcing in different ways. No one seems to have the magic<br>
> formula yet, but it will happen. Somewhere between google and<br>
> Stephen Baxter's scenario, will be a search engine thats different<br>
> from google and somehow better.<br>
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Indeed, back in the day, I started using Alta Vista. Someone introduced me to Google, and the sheer lightness of the page made it attractive (I was on dialup with a LAN modem at the time).<br>
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The free market system works: Google just happens to do what it does (for me, at least) better than any other. I'm not married to Google, and should a better mousetrap come along, I'll gladly try it, but for now, it seems to be the best thing going.<br>
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Just another couple cents to throw into the mix...<br>
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-- Lewis<br>
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