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Gorgeous na Shock!

@AmyZenunim My stuff on retrocomputing and weird little programming projects and tutorials in obsolete programming languages and platforms doesn't show up, which is doubly annoying, because that means I'm missing that stuff from other people when I search.

It shows up on Duck Duck Go/Bing, tho. So at least there's that.

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LisPi
@indigoparadox @AmyZenunim Guess it's back to webrings & web directories.

For those who weren't already doing that, anyway.
Kerr Avonsen

@indigoparadox @AmyZenunim I'm glad to see that Duck Duck Go hasn't dropped the ball (yet?) - they are my default search engine.

Gorgeous na Shock!

@kerravonsen @AmyZenunim They're great for some things but they seem to totally not index things like github or other source code repos. If I'm just not getting results on DDG (like *no results*, like for a function name usually), then I'll switch to startpage.com (which uses Google as a backend).

Kerr Avonsen

@indigoparadox @AmyZenunim What is the advantage of startpage.com over using Google directly?

Gorgeous na Shock!

@kerravonsen @AmyZenunim It's more or less habit, since I try to steer clear of Google Search in general. The selling point is privacy and no bubbling but for programming functions I guess that's not as much of an issue?

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