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Bernie wrote:
>>>If your answer might have been buried on page 30, it means that your
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> initial
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>>>search terms weren't specific enough. Seems like after 10 years you
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> might
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>>>have learned how to search.
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> Regarding Spyware, Eric Howes' information and home page should be one of
> the top hits and it isn't anywhere close.
> When I want information on any subject I'd like to get it from someone who
> is considered an expert in his field by his peers, perhaps someone who
> actually testified at a government hearing as an expert on the matter.
> What I don't want is 96 thousand links to one sentence blurbs in Usenet
> post, links to some website that require you become a member to read the
> answer to your question, someone complaining about spyware he installed and
> other useless sites.
> Pretty much the only way you'll ever find this web site is if someone gives
> it to you.
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https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/main-nf.htm
> You can type Spyware, Spyware Information or any combination of related
> words into a google search and click next page forever and you'll likely
> never find it. I don't care what search term you type into a google search,
> the information you want will not be on the first page and most likely won't
> be on the second page either.
> Not everyone deserves 15 min. of fame or a link from a search engine. Now
> every fool with notepad, HTML for Dummies and ISP provided free web server
> space is posting to the net and you can find every darned one of them with
> google. I liken it to white noise and it's drowning out all the useful and
> relevant information.
> I've 25 different search engines in my favorites folder, they all get used
> and google gets used less and less every year.
> I imagine you must have purchased some of that overpriced google stock that
> was maybe worth about $20.00 at best and are trying to justify your
> excesses.
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I think you're expecting *a little* too much. The term "research"
suggests that you're going to have to do *some* work on your own, and
information isn't going to be delivered to you in gift wrap. I Googled
for "spyware expert testimony" and found this on the first page:
http://tinyurl.com/3t3on. Then "spyware expert congress" yielded this,
again on the first page: http://tinyurl.com/6m6rl. From there it was a
simple matter to find lots of references to Edelman, albeit not
necessarily the particular page you refer to.
As far as searching and learning goes, there's also the matter of
serendipity, which consists in finding something useful, edifying or
fortuitous while looking for something else. I often find that Google
searches result in learning something I hadn't expected to learn, even
if I didn't directly find what I was looking for, and what's so bad
about that?
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