I sometimes see phrases or words on a page that I need to look up. Sometimes, those phrases can also lead to additional resources about a certain subject that I’m researching. While I could highlight and right-click the phrase to search for it on the default search engine, I do not have options to search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Ever since Google starting pumping up the results of their search engine with all kind of nonsense – read first and third party advertisement mainly but also other stuff like the unfair favoring of big brands – I have been looking for an alternative. And while I have found it in Bing, I have to [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Search in Windows 7 can be difficult and awkward to use as in order to use it properly you have to remember a lot of, sometimes very obscure commands including  size:gigantic to find the files you’re after.  I even released the chapters on Windows 7 search from my free Windows 7 Power Users Guide as [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

All modern web browsers come with options to search the active web page for specific words or phrases. None as far as I know support wildcard searches or the inclusion of inflections. The Google Chrome extension efTwo Advanced Find on Page adds support for the latter to the Chrome web browser. Sometimes when I search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Logged in Google users who do not follow the news as closely as the majority of Ghacks visitors may have noticed that Google started to redirect their searches on google.com from http to https automatically. While that is certainly not a issue on most systems, it could lead to issues on some. If you are [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

When you connect an external USB drive to a computer you may run into the problem that finding files on the drive is not as easy and fast as it could be. The main problem here is that the operating system did not have time to index the files and folders on the drive yet [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Bing is my default search engine for a number of reasons. I really do not want to rehash why that’s the case. Sometimes I cannot find what I’m looking for using Bing, and my next step then is to open Google and run the very same search on Google’s search engine. And if I cannot [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

GGrep is a text search and replace software for the Windows operating system that is based on the original Grep tool of Unix based machines. The portable Windows software comes with a user interface that displays the majority of features right on the start screen. A basic search requires a search term and the selection [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Bing homepage and the Google homepage have several things in common. They both embed a search form prominently on the page. The page itself has been designed to be almost distraction free. Both pages have something else in common; Media on the page. The Google page displays so called Doodles instead of the standard [...]

Categories: Search Engines