From: indira@ghandi.net   
      
   Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   >>> We can be thankful for small mercies.   
   >   
   > +1   
      
   -1   
      
   There was merit in having a Usenet-only keyword search engine that   
   was provided by dejanews (which Google took over) and which was available   
   to everyone with just a web browser, and which only searched Usenet and   
   which cost nothing which allowed the user to read the entire thread - not   
   just one post like Howard Knight does - and which allowed users to   
   reference the post to others who also had only a web browser,   
   etc).   
      
   If you want to search before you post, then there will probably be new   
   engines that come up, although none with the retention that Google had.   
      
   It has always been the case that the worst posters to Usenet were   
   never ones who searched before they posted anything, and for those   
   people, there was never (and will never) be a utility to a search engine.   
      
   For example   
   http://comp.sys.raspberry-pi.narkive.com   
      
   But that web site by David Cavion is no longer maintained once he got a   
   full-time job and now has no time to maintain it.   
      
   The Usenet-only replacement search engine needs to be free to all, with   
   just a browser, not needing an account, and having infinite retention.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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