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Searching for Search Tools

posted by martyb on Saturday March 02 2024, @12:15AM   
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

How do you find information online?

There are Lists of search engines.

But, which one(s) do you use and why?

Do you use just one search engine? Do you have one primary search engine and another one that you use only when your primary fails? May you use multiple engines depending on whether your search is on your desktop, mobile, or TV?

How do YOU choose?

• Re:Too expensive (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2024, @11:01AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2024, @11:01AM (#1347187)

  Imagine actually reading books, and discovering that the FBI doesn't really go on witch hunts or fishing trips

  So what books have you been reading? Mostly your own? Maybe your own books don't mention the FBI doing this stuff but that doesn't mean it doesn't or didn't happen.

  They've done these (do they count as witch hunts and/or fishing trips?):
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots [theguardian.com]
  https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/ [theintercept.com]
  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/magazine/fbi-international-terrorism-informants.html [nytimes.com]

  And these:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#J._Edgar_Hoover_and_the_FBI [wikipedia.org]
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibilities_Program [wikipedia.org]

  That said, from the FBI's track record, if the FBI ever targets the other AC I doubt his choice of search engine is going to save him much in legal fees or trouble.
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/21/fbi-jail-hair-mass-disaster-false-conviction [theguardian.com]

  See also: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/witness-to-alleged-bulger-murder-says-fbi-pressured-him-to-id-wrong-man/ [cbsnews.com]

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