DuckDuckGo is a popular alternative search engine with privacy in mind for those who want simple, easy search that works. In the Google Chrome browser, you can use DuckDuckGo as either a keyword-invoked search, or just simply set it as the default search engine in the browser. The video below shows you how to do both, plus some other...

DuckDuckGo is a search engine, and I know what you’re thinking. "Oh great, another engine I’ll never use." Well, you might use this one. People normally mention DuckDuckGo concerning its better privacy practices compared to Google or Bing. Yeah, yeah, DDG has good privacy, blah blah blah, but how does it do when you use it for search?...

Below is a TED talk by Eli Pariser on what he terms as "Filter Bubbles"; it’s a nine-minute presentation and definitely worth the watch.Filter bubbles in a nutshell are personalized search results that include results the search engine thinks are relevant to you; the filter part is the results have things stripped out of them you didn’t...

Google made a pretty significant announcement today: Google Instant. In a nutshell, it is instant search results. As you type into the seach box, it will begin pre-populating search results. It will also predict (as close as it can) what you may be trying to search for and give it to you. A few bullet points:It is rolling out starting today in the U.S. It will...

Users of the Google Chrome web browser use the address bar itself instead of an additional search bar to perform a search. Firefox can be modified to act exactly the same with a configuration tweak. Type about:config in Firefox’s address bar. Next to Filter type keyword. You will see this:The keyword.URL Preference is the one you want to modify, but...

Said honestly, it annoys me that whenever I perform a search on any search engine that Wikipedia results show up first so often. How to get Wikipedia Google search results to not show up can be done the manual way or the fancy way. Manual Way Simply add -wikipedia to any Google search term. The dash in front of wikipedia must be included. This tells Google,...

As I am sure Google is the search engine of choice for most of our readers, they have just recently published an update to their search engine indexing process: Some background for those of you who don’t build search engines for a living like us: when you search Google, you’re not searching the live web. Instead you’re searching Google’s...

I’ve been noticing more often than not that the first search results I get when I search for anything in Google or Bing is a Wikipedia article. There are many people – yours truly included – that purposely avoid Wikipedia articles because in many instances the content there is either slightly incorrect, flat out wrong and/or I never wanted to...

No, this does not mean that Yahoo! the site is going away. Far from it. It means that Y! has officially offloaded it to Microsoft. Yahoo! has made it very clear these days (and their CEO even said so) that they are not a search company, so now Y! is all about content. This is part of the reason why Y! has been making major changes over the past few years –...

craigslist, love it or hate it, is a great site to find.. well.. anything. However you’re limited to searching just one local area at a time. However you can search multiple areas via the use of a particular web site and an RSS reader (like Google Reader, Feed Demon or even Windows Live Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird) to get the job done. The web site to use...

Bing is the new search engine web site from Microsoft. This is their attempt to put their name on the map concerning internet search, or said differently, Microsoft is trying to compete with Google. Again. Bing is the replacement for Live Search. You can try it right now if you like. Just go to www.bing.com. Or, if you’d prefer a tour first, that’s...

Over the course of the weekend I used the internet to find places most of you out there are aware of to get good stuff cheap. Most of you will know what these places/events are, but it’s how you find them that’s the important part. Using Google Maps, with the category operator you can quickly find what you’re looking for in or near your local...

Something which is not readily obvious in Google Maps is the ability to find real estate listings. And no, it’s not just for new houses. It also includes rentals, foreclosures (good for the bargain hunter) and so on. Here’s how to do it: Load up Google Maps and click “My Maps” to the left. Looks like this:Note the “My Maps”...

Written recently on CNET is an author claiming that the reason most people use Google for internet searching is habitual and nothing more. I was forced to agree with this after trying it out for myself – but only after that. Originally my thought was that Google’s search is unmatched and there’s no way Yahoo search or Live search can...

Windows ships with a very functional search tool, but to take advantage of its full functionality and speed you have to have the notorious “Indexing Service” running in the background. As you may know, this service can be a beast in terms of resource consumption. While disabling this service doesn’t break the Windows search functionality, it...

Bookmark management in all web browsers is terrible. All of them. You would think that something as simple as searching for a bookmark would be simple and easy to do but it usually isn’t. In Firefox 3 you can at least search your bookmarks easily if you know how to do it. Fortunately this is quite easy. All you have to do is use your address bar. Just type...

Microsoft recently released version 4 of Windows Desktop Search so I decided to check it out. If you’d like to check it out for yourself, launch Internet Explorer, head over to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, do a "Custom" (instead of "Express") install and you’ll see the option to download it there. It’s free. WDS...