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Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info mus


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:27:48 +0900

Paul Eggert writes:

 > If one prefers a traditional manual, the use-Google approach can be
 > *really* annoying, as it tends to throw up all sorts of trash, and
 > I understand the annoyance.  Really, I do.  But what can I say?  It
 > often works way better, and we should be exploiting this technology
 > rather than limiting ourselves to the not-particularly-successful
 > tactic of asking people to send us bug reports and fixes for our
 > manuals.

Google search is (a) SaaS (although it is free as in Japanese sake)
and (b) privacy-invading.  You (and I!) may not care but Richard does.
We should probably try duckduckgo as default.





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