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MaggieL · 09-01-2002, 10:19 PM

What Toad said.

For search engine I like Google. I'm currently on 1.0 of Mozilla, but that's basically because I'm lazy. IE is not an issue here because Windows is not an operating system here; this household uses Linux exclusively.

Using a search engine is a skill I've been honing since *long* before there was WWW or Gopher, or even a widely available Internet. The data available to me for automated searching back then was bug reports, documentation and source code for IBM mainframe operating systems and software products. A lot of the same principles applied then as apply today, it's just an unimaginably larger corpus of information available under search.

09-01-2002, 10:19 PM	#34
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	What Toad said. For search engine I like Google. I'm currently on 1.0 of Mozilla, but that's basically because I'm lazy. IE is not an issue here because Windows is not an operating system here; this household uses Linux exclusively. Using a search engine is a skill I've been honing since long before there was WWW or Gopher, or even a widely available Internet. The data available to me for automated searching back then was bug reports, documentation and source code for IBM mainframe operating systems and software products. A lot of the same principles applied then as apply today, it's just an unimaginably larger corpus of information available under search. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."