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[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 3:17 AM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf at riseup.net>
wrote:

> 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
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>


Really you are right . My opinion is that your answer is not bikeshedding
but a very good explanation about
what may be good understanding .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk