In alt.config, a user has recently requested the discussion of a
potential newsgroup 'alt.antigoogle'. While the namespace for this may
be questionable, the idea has made me sit up and realize that there is no
official newsgroup to discuss Google. The closest thing out there is
alt.internet.search-engines, but that only really discusses one of its
many business focuses. It also doesn't seem like the best place to
discuss some of the wider issues, starting with the growing privacy
concerns that the world seems to be feeling lately...

Looking through the ISC active file, there are only two newsgroups
that include the name Google, and neither of them are English-language. I
find that interesting as well.

I wonder if there would be interest in creating a proper newsgroup
to discuss Google specifically. I'm not really sure what the proper
namespace would be yet; I personally offer either soc.web.google or
soc.web.search-engines.google, but I'm sure that somebody will have some
better suggestions. And more than that, while I'm sure that there would
be plenty of users for the group, I'm not sure how to demonstrate that; a
proponent would have to beat the brush a bit to pull out a starting user
base, if the group were to get any use.

Thoughts?

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