On 10/18/2011 03:59 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
And does Google really need to know everything?
The forum content is public - Google already knows that.
Your search isn't - I am using DuckDuckGo now for that reason - they
have an excellent non-tracking policy. I used to use "Scroogle" but
DuckDuckGo's results seem at least as good as Google's to me now.
And what is the forums'
search function for?
Speculation: If it was phpBB, I'd definitely say "because Google hadn't
become ubiquitous by then" (Google only started in 1997!). In fact it's
FluxBB, which started in 2008 as a fork of PunBB, which might be as old
as 2002 or 2003 judging by the footers of these PunBB-related forums:
http://www.punres.org/ http://punbb.informer.com/forums/ .
~isaac
