10 Feb
2023
10 Feb
'23
1:51 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 5:04 PM Zane Healy <healyzh(a)avanthar.com> wrote:
The one thing Google distinctly offers and for which I still use it is the
scanned book archive (books.google.com) because it has magazines, journals,
etc. So it's a great database to search for obscure computer hardware and
software in the ads or reviews of computer magazines.
However, archive.org exceeds or surpasses Google Books these days because
you're actually allowed to "borrow" the content and see it all, as opposed
to the pathetic snippets Google allows you from its archive, due to
"copyright". Google apparently doesn't know how to innovate.
Sellam
That being
said, all search engines are more or less broken today, due
to a
number of factors. It's like we're back
in 1996. Except worse.
Sellam
That’s an interesting observation Sellam, and I have to agree. In
thinking about it, I was able to find stuff on the Internet easier in 1995
than I seem to be able to now. I mostly avoid Google like the plague now,
but I decided to use it today to look for a very specific term, it still
spews nonsense.