[PLUG] web search post filtering

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:06:22AM -0700, brooks at netgate.net wrote:
> I couldn't agree more. But other than raising some cash to start yet
> another search engine I'm not sure how to solve the problem. 

Again, the problem is not the search engine, it is the lack
of a filter in front of (or as a plugin inside) our own web
browsers to help us manage and minimize the information we
must pay attention to.

When I enter: "washington apples" +blue into startpage.com
(another anonymizer), I get 64 results, less than 4 megabytes
of data, perhaps one second of download time on my 30 mbps
Comcast incoming.   Perhaps 20 seconds to load ALL the
pages the results point at.

It might take half an hour to puruse all the hits myself,
but seconds for software ON MY OWN MACHINE to test those
hits and decide whether they actually match my search
criteria.  POST filtering, not a different search engine.

With those automated results, and my own local POST FILTER
tool, I could quickly zero in on what ***I*** want. 
I could also evaluate different internet search engines
for speed, effectiveness, and relevance.

If the filter is a paid service upstream that sits in
between me and the "free" search engines, that's OK,
but the search engines would blacklist it quickly. 

We've become way too dependent on Big Brother to do our
thinking and choosing for us.  Our own computers should
amplify our own brains and will, not make us passive
data-toilets for whatever the search engine owners choose
to piss at us.  There's a lot of bear piss and fish poop
in that lovely mountain stream; use a water filter.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com