Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, is officially one year old today.  The search engine formerly known as Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search was officially unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the 28th May 2009 at the All Things Digital COnference in San Diego. The search engine went live on June 3rd that same [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Microsoft have made great strides in making the search and organise features in Windows 7 easier to use than ever before but despite the best efforts of Microsoft to make search in Windows 7 as easy and as intuitive as possible the use, a great many people still find some aspects of using search, especially [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Apple is gearing up for the launch of the next iPhone, widely expected in the next couple of months.  Now though rumours are circulating that Microsoft and Apple are in talks to replace Google as the phone’s default search engine with Bing. TechCrunch are reporting “Multiple sources at Google tell us that in informal discussions [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft

The ability to search for files is integrated into every Windows desktop operating system. Microsoft has improved the search in Windows Vista, and these improvements carry over to Windows 7. One useful new feature is the ability to save searches for access at a later time without having to reenter the search parameters. Saving searches [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The standard Windows search is usually sufficient for most search related tasks even though it is not the fastest nor a feature rich desktop search software. Instead of using Windows search users can install third party search tools that promise better performance and functionality. We have reviewed our fair share of desktop search tools in [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Ryan over at Cybernetnews has released version 2 of his Firefox add-on Cybersearch. Cybersearch expands the capabilities of the Firefox address bar (or awesome bar as the devs like to call it). The add-on adds the functionality to perform searches in various search engines right from the Firefox address bar with the results being displayed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Users who want to perform a search in Windows usually do so from the Windows start menu where the search link (Windows XP) or search form (Windows Vista and Windows 7) is available. An alternative – and often faster – way of accessing the search interface in Windows is to create a search shortcut on [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

There are search tools and then there are SEARCH TOOLS. Any Linux user that has ever needed real power for their searches generally has to resort to the command line where they can take advantage of regular expressions or scripting. But what if you could have a GUI tool that could also handle regular expressions? [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

The default Windows XP search engine to search is neither blazingly fast nor does it provide many advanced options for locating files or folders. That’s the main reason why many Windows users install third party search programs like Everything, Locate32 or even desktop search tools like Windows Search 4.0 or Google Desktop Search. Many search [...]

Categories: Software, Windows