Well Goosh Damn, a Google Shell

Goosh is a “Google Shell” for your browser written by Stefan Grothkopp and it happens to  be fairly nifty. The shell like interface allows once to search Google and Wikipedia, returning information in a text only form sans ads. Goosh that’s cool!

Filtering Google Search Results by Date

A Google search on all but the most obscure of terms return literally thousands of plausible results. There are times that this is very handy, and one of the reasons you likely turned to Google in the first place. But what if you were interested in results from a recent period? Time sensitive items, such [...]

Accessing Sites that are Down

Its happened to most everyone at one point or another, a friend sends you a link to check out or a Google Search returns a perfect result, but upon clicking the link you find that the page cannot be loaded. It happens. The servers or networks that host the site are clogged, the page could [...]

Yahoo! to Microsoft: How cheap do you think we are?

Recent pen-pals Microsoft and Yahoo have had yet another exchange. As expected, the latest “Dear Steve” letter responds to Microsoft’s initial 3 week ultimatum - otherwise known as ‘take our deal or we’ll take it to your shareholders.’  It’s been rumored that the email exchanges before PR got ahold of them actually went something like [...]

Web advertisers know what you did last summer

One would imagine that only the most neophyte Internet users understand that their movements are being watched and recorded. A study by TNS Global on behalf of TRUSTe only confirms that; web users are aware of the monitoring - and they hate it. From the survey of 1,015 randomly selected adults in the US:

57% are [...]