Google Search is likely Yahooed now
This is a lesson that you are never too big to disappear. I remember the arrival of Google Search (when that was all they did) and how it collapsed Yahoo search from the scene. Googling […]
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Hister indexes every web page you visit and lets you search the full text of your browsing history offline
“Have you ever wished your browser history was more than just a collection of URLs? As it is, the standard search history is kind of useless. Sure, you can see the title of the page […]
Stop scrolling through Google’s AI junk: Startpage’s “classic” search engine is better
“So I chose Startpage, a privacy-focused search engine that gets its results from Google, Bing, and a range of other sources, but doesn’t have any of the tracking. With little of the added junk that […]
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search
“If you ever get the impression that search engines are getting worse, or that alternatives are not all they seem, it’s not just you. It’s what journalist Cory Doctorow calls “It has 14 partners funding […]
You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT
ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines […]
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results. The internet giant said […]
5 DuckDuckGo Features You Should Be Using
DuckDuckGo is primarily known for its focus on privacy. But the search engine (and now browser) offers several helpful features, many of which aren’t even available on Google or Bing. So if you are new […]
Think how much richer Internet searches will be with results from Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc
I have found search results to be very good with Reddit links in the past. I get that Reddit needs to pay for their hosting (just like everyone else) but with so many more Internet […]
Docfetcher is a cross-platform free and open source desktop search application
The program is an indexing search tool, meaning it has a local database of file content that it checks, rather than looking over all files on your machine. This means the program must always be […]
Best Privacy Focused Search Engines of 2023 Compared
When you search for any query in a web search engine, that specific query gets recorded on the server and becomes a part of your online search history. Most common and popular search engines record […]