[Tfug] OT:Any Free Search Engines?

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: [Tfug] OT:Any Free Search Engines?
From: "Charles R. Kiss" <charles at kissbrothers.com>
To: "tfug at tfug.org" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: 05/07/2009 06:32 PM
>
> I googled "Beethoven 3 mp3 download" and other combinations including 
> other words like, "free, scherzo," etc. thinking that there would be 
> many many versions, all over the world, of one of Beethoven's most 
> popular compositions -and that I would be able to download legally for 
> FREE.  I imagined high schools, universities, and other entities would 
> have legally produced and uploaded their versions.
>
> However I found NONE.
>
> It occurred to me that maybe Google has already sold so much of its 
> "soul", and had already so many commitments, that the first 10,000 
> hits were all, in some way, paying Google customers, or vice versa.  
> And that now, much of the search space is saturated with Googloids, 
> and doing a real search for information on the internet using Google 
> is hardly "representational."
>
> For example, Wikipedia is in Googles back pocket: always ends up in 
> the top three, etc.
>
> Are there any more interesting search engines out there that don't 
> have "conflicts of interest" issues with entities that fill "their 
> results"?
>
> What are people using?  What's a truly free, as in independent, search 
> engine. Like Google used to be.
>
> Know what I mean?
>
> Thanks!
> Charles
Interesting I put in: "beethoven 3rd symphony mp3" and came up with lots 
of hits... Maybe Google no like you ;)

-- 
Sometimes I wonder.  Were our faith able to stand upright and look around, would it be looking down at the mustard seed or standing in awe of the height and breadth of it.

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