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Comparing Google and Bing search results
Bing, Microsoft’s latest shot across Google’s search supremacy bow, has continued to steadily gain market share since it’s launch in June 2009. Last week Microsoft completed a 10-year deal with Yahoo which would replace Yahoo’s search technology with Bing which promptly gave Bing around 20% of the search traffic. Bing is officially a player in [...]
Stay Safe and Stay Away from these Search Terms
It’s been a slow educating process but most Internet surfers are aware of a few search terms or downloads that increase the risk of a malware infection if you are not careful. For example, most know that the search term warez is a recipe for disaster and as such, stay away – ignoring the moral [...]
Add Wolfram Alpha to Firefox Search Box
A few days ago Wolfram|Alpha was finally unveiled to the public in the form of a functional alpha product. At first glance Wolfram Alpha appears to be just another ambitious search engine trying to gain traction from the behemoth Google. However, it becomes immediately clear upon your first search that the product isn’t a search [...]
Bringing Back “Search…” Menu Item After Vista SP1
Because of fears on appearing anti-competitive Microsoft chose to introduce a few visual access points to Vista’s built in search in Service Pack 1. Companies such as Google felt that Microsoft’s built in search was too prominently pushed on the unaware users, who would want to use applications like Google Desktop for their local search. [...]
Changing the Search Engine in Firefox’s Awesome Bar
You are likely aware that searches can be executed directly from Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar – the address bar whose functionality was greatly enhanced in the latest release of the browser. You probably wouldn’t have a reason to be reading this post if you didn’t. To me, it is a curious feature because Firefox already [...]
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