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From: Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: call from 510-854-4017 legit or not ?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 10:13:47 +0100
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On 10.5.24 2:10 am, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 5/9/24 5:56 PM, Adam wrote:
>> On 05/08/2024 09:43 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 May 2024 18:24:21 -0400, knuttle wrote:
>>>> Subject: Re: call from 510-854-4017 legit or not ?
>>>> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
>>>> Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 18:24:21 -0400
>>>> From: knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com>
>>>> Message-ID: <v1blam$2qgha$1@dont-email.me>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/06/2024 3:15 PM, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>>>> [quoted text muted]
>>>>> the name of the caller and let them proceed to the answering machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> That solves 90% of the cases.
>>>>>
>>>> Google search on the number 510-854-4017
>>>>
>>>> returns this page
>>>> https://directory.youmail.com/phone/510-248-4017
>>>>
>>>> (510) 248-4017 is a Debt Collector
>>>> Name    Debt Collector    Location    Fremont, CA US
>>>
>>> I saw that too, and nearly posted the same thing. But I noticed in
>>> time that the phone number returned in the Google results is not the
>>> same as the phone number searched for (854 versus 248).
>>>
>>> Google searches are getting worse and worse, month by month and year
>>> by year.
>> 
>> I noticed that Google Translate has gone downhill too.
> 
> I tried to learn Mandarin for a few weeks, but the fact that google was
> unable to understand what I said 90% of the time convinced me that it
> was hopeless.  It worked for French, Spanish and German, but not
> Mandarin. I am apparently reasonably good at imitating language sounds,
> but not Mandarin.  Or else google is not good at hearing them.
> 
>> Thoughts about open source search engine?
> 
> I wonder if Duck Duck Go just provides a front end to google.
> 
I believe it uses Bing mainly. It's quite useful from the security point 
of view and can get rid of much of the tripe that Google produces but I 
always come back to Google because the results are much more varied and 
extensive.

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