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 [...]

Tags: internet-explorer, sarch engine, Search Engines, search selected, web search, windows software
Categories: Search Engines, Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: dangerous search, internet, Search Engines, search terms, searching, Security, web search
Categories: Search Engines, Security

Google has recently introduced so called Search Options to their search engine which are hidden by default on any search page but can be activated with one click. The Show Options link is placed directly beneath the search form on search result pages and will open a small sidebar menu with several choices that change [...]

Tags: advanced search, Google, google chrome, google search, search engine, search options, web search
Categories: Search Engines, Uncategorized

There has been a lot of talk about this new search engine by Wolfram which many called a Google killer. The strange thing was that this happened without anyone being able to test the search engine. It finally is live now and anyone is able to test the search engine and compare it against other [...]

Tags: google search, search engine, web search, wolfram, wolfram alpha, wolfram search
Categories: Search Engines

The idea of Faroo is simple. Faroo uses P2P technology to crawl the World Wide Web instead of using an infrastructure with thousands of servers and worldwide datacenters. If you think about it, users are already visiting websites all the time and the basic idea is to utilize those information to build and maintain an [...]

Tags: faroo, faroo p2p search, freeware, google search, P2p, p2p search, web search, word wide web, yahoo search
Categories: The Web

The Google Translate service was known for a long time to translate text and websites from one language to the other. The current version features 34 languages from English over German to Vietnamese. Chances are good that Google Translate can translate the text or website into a language that the visitor can understand.
What most users [...]

Tags: google search, google service, google translate, search engine, translate, translated search, web search
Categories: Google, Search Engines

Google Alerts are a great way of keeping in touch with certain changes in the Google index. This can be used to track keywords, news, a favorite device or celebrity and anything else that is indexed by Google. The user can define a few parameters including the interval in which the alerts are send out [...]

Tags: feed my search, Google, google alerts, search, search results, web search
Categories: Search Engines, The Web