Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   > 2. You create a Google CSE. Works very well upto 200 documents (and
>   > perhaps a few hundred more.)
>
> What is a Google CSE?

Google CSE = Google Custom Search Engine.

It allows you to search just the pages you want. That could be a
certain host. Or a folder on a host. (Google CSE allows you to do a
bit more, but that is the basic.)

Like all Google search their revenue is based on advertising. You can
(as a maintainer for that CSE) get rid of that by paying. (And some
non-profit organisations can get rid of it for free.)


> Do you need a Google account to use that?
> It is bad to let Google know who you are.

You need a Google account to set it up. (They can't avoid that even if
they wanted to!) You do not need such an account to just use the CSE
to search.