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   hanno (hanno@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jan-2026 22:00:46 JST hanno

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   I really don't have any idea what they're doing at google. I had a recent instance where I was searching for a filename that was on an open source mirror in plenty of places, and Google said it knows nothing about it... there's, like, zero possiblity they don't have any of the mirror dirlistings indexed.

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     hanno (hanno@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jan-2026 22:00:47 JST hanno

     Anyone got a recommendation for a good web search engine? The one I used to use has decided to pivit towards providing a chatbot with a crappy search engine attached that isn't really working properly.

     Rich Felker repeated this.