On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 09:23:58PM +0000, Ben Koenig wrote: > Are looking for the perfect "Spaghetti Sauce" when we should be looking for > the best "Spaghetti Sauces" ? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhFh5Ms1vc
Perfect search engine "spaghetti sauce" would be perfect; all I hope for (alliteratively) is to avoid search engine "Spring surprise": https://youtu.be/puNT08o6jyE In this case, the "steel bolts" could be on a jail cell, after my (surveilled and archived) search violates a future law ex-post-facto. Like this posting itself; I had an internet-sharing run-in with Python's lawyers years ago, time for another? Another issue, as I mentioned before, is surplus and often overwhelming "homonym results" (ignoring "steel", providing results for "steal" and "stele" and "stihl" instead). And yes, I know that "stele" and "stihl" are not spoken English homonyms, but an underpaid Asian programmer coding matching rules does not. And the ads - page after page of ads. Neeva is interesting because of "no ads" - and seemingly, so is Bing, which Neeva channels. If I connect to indirectly to Bing using TOR routing, perhaps I can avoid "How we use personal data ... ... "Advertise and market to you, which includes sending promotional communications, targeting advertising, and presenting you with relevant offers." ( https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement ) But then I would need to learn how to configure and use TOR, and keep remembering how. Please don't escalate the conversation to "perfect" or even "very good". I would settle for "epsilon better than useless" - for me, an inventor and author and pseudo-scholar, not a bored teenage distraction seeker. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
