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Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.

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In comp.misc RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2019-04-28, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2019-04-28, tom <tom@0.0.0.0> wrote:
>>> Try wiby.me
>>
>> Utter shit.
> 
> They bill themselves as "search engine for classic websites" which
> sounds a bit limited, nostalgic even.  It also smacks of hand curation.

Something like DMOZ (now Curlie), but in a search engine format, and
with a bias against commercial websites.

I gave it a breif look when the link was posted and my first search
went to a server error, so I went away with my tail between my legs.
That must have just been a breif problem though because it seems to
work fine now. Frankly, I quite like it. Sure it's useless for really
finding what you're looking for, but as they state (and I've now
snipped, oh well), it seems good for stumbling upon things. eg. with
some only very broadly related searches I've found a blog from
someone who built their own computer from 7400 series logic in 2008,
a detailed blog about old IBM hardware (http://www.righto.com/), and
"Tales of the Four Wheel Cowboy" a somewhat eccentric tribute page
to some American musician who I've never heard of.

Mind you I'm pretty well served already for strange obscure pages
to look at when I have time to kill, by way of my various bookmarks
to "look at properly sometime" (the IBM hardware blog has been
added). Directories of links, or pages hosted by a certain provider
or ISP, can be great fun to work through.

Yesterday I had an hour to kill and decided to check out an old blog
that I'd noticed in my bookmarks earlier and discovered that the
author had ended it, but there were plenty of interesting posts that
I'd either never read or forgotten. So I went to visit it but missed
and clicked on a link to "LoseThos 64-Bit Operating System", which
took me to the site of some fashion store. But what had happened to
this OS which I had no memory of ever hearing about but obviously
once thought was worthy of a bookmark? Calling the Wayback Machine
into action, I worked my way back through the history of expired
domain pages until I found a page declaring that LoseThos was now
TempleOS, and at www.templeos.org). So away I go and find a fairly
spartin page with a detailed logo, a link to an ISO, and a note at
the bottom that the author had died and suggesting that his
"supporters" donate towards mental health. So what was this
mysterious OS, and what happened to it's creator? Time to put Duck
Duck Go onto the case, and surprisingly enough (for the sort of
software that I bookmark) TempleOS has a detailed Wikipedia page
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS) describing it as a
"biblical-themed lightweight operating system". Curiosity now lead
me through the whole article about the OS, and on to the page about
its creator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis). So I'm
now well versed on the rather tragic tale of Terry A. Davis and
TempleOS (though I haven't burnt that ISO to a CD yet), and the hour
was well filled.

I guess that's the sort of journey that Wiby might take you on
(especially since I just sumbitted www.templeos.org).

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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. "(p)ing^~dvox:::::::::z" <dvox@hotbot.com> - 2019-02-15 04:21 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. whodunit <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-08 20:39 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-08 21:18 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 22:48 -0400
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:10 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:27 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-12 09:42 -0400
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 14:26 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:39 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2019-03-15 09:17 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-08 21:32 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-09 02:15 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-09 09:14 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 09:41 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:17 -0400
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2019-03-13 16:29 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-08 21:38 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-08 23:51 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-08 23:40 -0500
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 12:16 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 20:38 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-11 03:53 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-11 06:16 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-11 10:38 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-11 20:55 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-11 22:07 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 00:00 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:26 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:08 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 21:53 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-13 19:59 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-13 20:17 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-13 22:12 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-14 20:36 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 08:51 -0400
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2019-03-15 17:08 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-14 21:23 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. NUNURBIZ <NUNURBIZ@YAHOO.COM> - 2019-04-19 02:00 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-19 10:53 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2019-04-28 09:55 -0700
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-28 17:48 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 16:42 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-29 23:19 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-20 08:54 +0000

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