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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:28:36 +0000, Cyprian Ambe wrote:
>If you state something like this, please also state how. The OP might
>be a beginner and thus not know how to search the repos. Pointing them
>just to some Google results (why Google btw) or giving them very brief
>instructions might thus not be very helpful as they might not know how
>to interpret that.

Hi,

it's pointless to discuss this. On some other mailing lists subscribers
would just quote the obligatory
  
  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before

to a request as yours.

At the risk of bikeshedding I'll play the Devil's advocate. Assuming
somebody is a "beginner", being in favour of Google rather than another
search engine makes much sense. It's probably still the search engine,
able to provide best recommendations, at least to those, who don't have
the skills to think about ideal search terms. Some alternative search
engines suffer from weak points, when doing researches by non-English
search terms.

Some people are per se against Google for good reasons, but way too many
people are per se against Google for no good reasons at all. Let alone
excesses against Google, if people choose something even more bad as
a replacement for Google.

A while back on another mailing list "Dissenter" was recommended as an
alternative to Firefox and especially to Google Chrome or any Google
Chromium based browser. Actually "Dissenter" is from "gab", see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) . Avoiding usage of
Google not necessarily is the better choice.

I reply by this off-topic and bikeshedding appearing email since I very
often explicitly mention that FLOSS novices shouldn't replace Google by
other search engines, as long as they are novices who don't have a clue
what good FLOSS related search terms to use. Not that long ago a lot of
people searching for a FLOSS sound server (jackd) for instance got hits
related to LGBTQIA*, but not related to FLOSS. "Beginners" can stay with
DuckDuckGo and other search engines for researches related to t-shirts
or coffee machines.

Regards,
Ralf