[PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

[Tom]

Please try to understand - site:lists.pdxlinux.org is just a filter to
show relevant data from the mountain of search. It is all there, it
just needs to be pulled out using the query language of the search
engine.
What I am trying to say is - you need to be able to express what you
are looking for and - do efficiently in one simple sentence. If you
came to me and say "Comcast" you would probably hear something on the
top of my mind related to that term - My contract renewal is coming,
and they are one of the nastiest companies I had to deal with, ever.
That is all greatly "interesting", but probably not what you are
looking for to find out.
With the amount of stuff indexed by search engines, like with humans or
programming, it is the skill/art of expression to be able to ask the
right way in order to obtain the answers you are looking for. 
I consider myself human, at times, I skimmed your posts related to this
subject - honestly I cannot tell what you are talking about, not to
mention what answer you might be seeking. Part of it is that I do not
know much about the state of your mind, and I also do not know anything
about Usenet at this moment.
Not trying to defend AI/robots/GoogleProgramers - See how inefficient
and ambiguous is my answer above, most people would be done with
reading and trying to understand by the second sentence.
Yours truly, philosopher, Tomas
On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 05:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> {rearranged text to maintain flow of thought;}
> On 04/02/2017 12:47 AM, Tom wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 09:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > [SNIP]
> > > 
> > > Search engines aren't intelligent enough. They can retrieve
> > > individual posts with a keyword. They will likely return a
> > > link if the keyword is in the group's or list's name/title.
> > > But will give no hint that a particular topic is "on topic".
> > > For example if one was looking for
> > > information on "Debian", "Ubuntu", or "Comcast", I know of no
> > > search
> > > engine that would return "lists.pdxlinux.org".
> > > 
> > Try Google searching for: Comcast site:lists.pdxlinux.org
> > https://www.google.com/search?q=Comcast+site:lists.pdxlinux.org
> 
> That actually demonstrates the point I was trying {unsuccessfully?} 
> trying to make. I.E. if you want to if a subject is covered by a 
> specific list then do a "site search". However there is no method for
> discovering a previously unknown site that covers a subject. THAT 
> requires human intelligence not AI.
> (that link claims 59 results is "About 3,720 results" ;/)
> 
> 
> > See other Google search details:
> > https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
> > https://www.lifewire.com/advanced-google-search-3482174
> 
> I won't say what I think those links say about Google Inc. They did 
> suggest a way however to *COERCE* it to be a search engine.
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search appears to provide a
> pictographic 
> representation of a Boolean search for Google's [pejorative
> adjectives 
> deleted] target audience.
> 
> > Best luck, Tomas
> 
> Thank you for trying.
> 
> > 
> > > That's why I asked here having already come up dry with search
> > > engines.
> > > 
> > > > [snip]
> 
> 
> 
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