Google Search has seen lots of changes in the past years, but none were as drastic as the changes introduced over the course of the last year. Even if you blend out all the search experiments like instantly updating search results that are only visible to a minority of users, you are left with a [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

Not all change is good, and it is often better to keep a system as is, than to add self proclaimed innovative features that many users might not want. Google has made lots of changes to Google Search in the past, and while some of them made sense, others did not. Google’s latest experiment is [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

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

Just as Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces in search, now Yahoo! Japan and Google have linked up too. Yahoo!’s Japanese search engine will now use Google’s technology rather than stick with fellow partner Microsoft and their Bing search engine as reported by NeoWin.

Categories: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo

While the standard Windows Search does a proper job at finding files stored on the computer’s hard drives, it is criticized by some users for its speed and resource usage. Third part desktop search tools like Everything and Puggle offer speed advantages and a lower resource usage, which makes them attractive for many of Windows [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have covered the Evolution groupware client on Ghacks before (check out all content containing Evolution here). Everything from basic tasks to connecting to an Exchange server, it’s been here on Ghacks. But one thing I have neglected is some of the lesser known, but very useful features tucked away in this fantastic application. So, [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Google pulled out of China earlier in the year in an argument over censorship that began with rumours that the communist government there had hacked into the GMail accounts of political activists in the country.  The government then, in the ensuing row, went on to censor the search giant until Google eventually had no other [...]

Categories: Google

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are always looking for ways to make their search engines better, and Google’s latest volley into search has kicked off today with a caffeine hit. This new way to index pages treats all pages on the web the same, their old system treated web pages as being of different tiers, some [...]

Categories: Google

I have been working with the Bing search engine for the last couple of days after switching to it from Google Search. It still takes time to get used to this new search engine after using Google for the last decade or so almost exclusively. I really do not want to say to much about [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines