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Looking for an old Doonesbury comic

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Tim Chow

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May 17, 2015, 6:54:54 PM5/17/15
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I seem to recall that sometime in the late 1990s, there was a Doonesbury comic in which one of the characters said something to the effect that if someone could design a search engine that actually worked well, then they would make a huge amount of money. This was before Google exploded on the scene, and has always struck me as a very prescient observation. Can someone locate the precise strip? Thanks!

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Tim Chow

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May 17, 2015, 9:35:05 PM5/17/15
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In article <e491f1f5-3444-4087...@googlegroups.com>, Tim
I believe it was an engine that always found the lowest price of
something. The problem would be only the company with that price would
sell anything, driving the others out of business and leaving nobody to
buy their engine.

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gyhang...@gmail.com

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May 20, 2015, 6:37:33 PM5/20/15
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http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/1998/09/02

Tim Chow

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May 20, 2015, 8:12:33 PM5/20/15
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On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 6:37:33 PM UTC-4, gyhang...@gmail.com wrote:
> http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/1998/09/02

That's it! Thank you very much.

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Tim Chow

Tim Chow

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May 20, 2015, 8:14:45 PM5/20/15
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On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 6:37:33 PM UTC-4, gyhang...@gmail.com wrote:
> http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/1998/09/02

I just noticed that Google was incorporated just *two days* after this strip appeared!

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Tim Chow

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May 5, 2019, 8:34:35 AM5/5/19
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I'm looking for a comic that was during Santa Barbara homeless war as it was called of a young man on a park bench leaning against his backpack with his dog sitting on the ground next to him, and he's saying "I'm not homeless, I'm on vacation" As I was there and that was My saying, and the character looks like me right down to the hat with the feather and my dog looked just as goofy. I would love to find a copy, I wish I had tried years ago to get one autographed

D Heine

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May 13, 2019, 8:00:57 AM5/13/19
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Speaking of old Doonesbury strips: Have the daily reruns reached 1993 or 1994 yet?

Carl Fink

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May 13, 2019, 9:48:25 AM5/13/19
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They aren't sequential and he skips anything he feels like.
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