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Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!



On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:01:24 -0700, 
"Dr. MacQuigg" <macquigg@ece.arizona.edu> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 5.2.1.1.0.20031202185117.00b14758@mail.gain.com>:

> For the future:
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if debian.org just listed the contents of each
> package on a webpage.  Then we could use Google for these searches. 
> Why do so many websites have their own home-brew search engines, when
> Google will do the job much faster and more reliably?

..one reason not to, is the monoculture problem, according to google
search experience documented over at http://groklaw.net/ , it is
possible to "poison" the searches by manipulating meta tag info etc to
divert tons of irrelevant stuff into SCO history searches, a lot of the
stuff I find sorting SCO on dates on http://news.google.com listed as 
"5 minutes ago", turns out to be 5 days, weeks or months old.

..cure is, try _several_ search engines, and consider homebrewing.  ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.




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