[PLUG] Does anyone here use GNU Recutils?

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:01:28 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> dijo:

>On 08/30/2020 03:44 AM, Tom wrote:
>> While no a response to your first question,
>> https://searx.pussthecat.org may respect your boolean queries more.
>> You may want to try searching there.
>>   
>
>Did a test search. It _ *IS* _ much better than either Duckduckgo or 
>Google in that respect.

OK, I tried it, but it produced a couple of questions. 

First, I did a search on 'shop insulin syringes' and all the sites that
came up gave me prices in either £ or €. My VPN has me connected through
a server in Miami, but through the same server DuckDuckGo gives me
mostly places in the US, with a scattering from other places. I have no
idea if search engines check your location from the server you are
connected to, or how they decide what to display.

Second, in the lower right corner of each hit it says something like
'duckduckgo qwant startpage cached.' All the hits were cached, but I
don't understand where they are cached. I did this search in Chromium
on Xubuntu, and I had done the same search yesterday, also in Chromium,
so maybe that is where the cache is. But some of them referred to other
search engines instead of DuckDuckGo, e.g., Bing, and I have never ever
deliberately used Bing.

I suppose I need to poke around in the Advanced options. :)