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Firefox Search Crumbs, Offers Fast Custom Searching

How do you search? Asking that question to 100 web users would probably yield 100 different answers. The majority is likely to name a popular search engine like Google or Bing. But the how is not only answered by a where. Do those Internet users open a new tab, load their favorite search engine and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Bing Powered Yahoo Search Transition Begins

Yahoo and Microsoft have been testing Bing powered search results offline for some time now. A recent email sent out to advertisers confirmed that the testing will be moved to the live search results shortly. During that period part of Yahoo’s Live search results will be powered by Bing, “with paid search volume in particular [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines, Yahoo

Search For Selected Text In Search Engines

What do users normally do if they want to research a phrase that they have read in a text, Word or Excel document, on a website or in a user agreement of a program that they are installing? The usual answer is that they copy the phrase, open their favorite web browser, load the a [...]

Categories: Search Engines, Software, Windows

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Take a blind test and change your searching habits

I use Google out of habit and because I have always thought it is the best search engine. I’ve never objectively tried to compare major search engines and as a result I haven’t changed. Blind Search allows you to compare the results of Google, Bing and Yahoo. You search for a term in it, and [...]

Categories: Search Engines

The Most Dangerous Web Search Terms

Which search terms would make it on the list if you would have to compile a list of the ten most dangerous web search terms? Most users would probably add search terms like warez, cracks and sex when asked to compile a top ten list. A recent McAfee study on the other hand came to [...]

Categories: Search Engines, Security

Search Bing And Google Simultaneously

A great way of testing a new search engine is to compare it to the dominant established search engine. BingAndGoogle offers a combined search interface that is more comfortable than working with two web browser windows or switching between tabs in the same window. The search engine mashup displays a single search form on the [...]

Categories: Search Engines

WordPress SEO: Advanced Nofollow

WordPress is already well optimized when it comes to SEO (that’s Search Engine Optimization). There are some basic changes that are usually performed like changing the link structure to include the title of the articles or displaying the title of the article in the web browser’s title. Most users stop here, some go ahead and [...]

Categories: The Web

Get Free Photoshop Tutorials with Vunky Search

Whether you are a novice or an intermediate user in the world of Photoshop, everyone can use tutorials. Even if a person is comfortable with the software, tutorials are a great way of introducing oneself to new styles and concepts and pretty much be amazed by what you can create with Photoshop. If you’re looking [...]

Categories: Cool, Search Engines, Tutorials Advanced

Help charity effortlessly through the web

Charity can be helped significantly through minor changes to what we done online; by changing search engines, buying through a portal or even simply installing a Firefox extension. This article will highlight several of these worldwide. UK In the UK, Everyclick is a website which provides an Ask-based search engine which donates much of its [...]

Categories: Search Engines

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