On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 04:10:01 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:08:35PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Ahh, ok, sorry, it looks like I lied -- I searched for [define: bananian] > > using Duck Duck Go (not google, as I had stated). > > I must admit I skipped ( EEEK =:-o ) the search engine myself, which > would've been DuckDuckGo (y'all know: Google -- what is Google, anyway? > ;-) > > Curious as I am, I tried define:bananian with DDG: the second hit is a > Wikipedia entry for the Banana Pi, which is somehow right, but makes you > think it is wrong. > > > None of the first 10 results had anything to do with a LInux > > distribution. > > Or they disguised as "not having anything to do..." -- if you go to that > Wikipedia entry (which I'm dead sure /was/ among your first ten entries, > it was second in my search), and search within the page for "bananian", > you'll find (plain text facsimile): > > Operating system > Android (Android 4.2, Android 4.4), > Linux (Armbian, Bananian, Lubuntu, Raspbian, Debian GNU/Linux, > Fedora, Arch Linux ARM, Gentoo, openSUSE), > Berryboot, FreeBSD, OpenWrt > > See? There's the bananian, with a link to the original page.
Ahh, I see, but, I mainly replied to agree with your next statement: > Now I'm not saying all of this to tease you or something, but because > it illustrates (to me, at least) how difficult search actually is: +1 (or more) > That second hit would be obvious to me, because I already had that > association made (bananian <--> banana pi) and some background > knowledge (banana pi is a "kind of" raspberry pi). To someone who > never heard of "banana pi" this second hit looks like a fluke from > some over-eager text matching algorithm and thus irrelevant. > > Please excuse this excursion. No problem, instead, I thank you for actually verbalizing something that I've encountered often! (Of course, sometimes the failure of search may just be my mind set ...)
