The Carrot2 search engine can be a useful alternative to Google.
Read MoreThe Carrot2 Search Engine Revisited
search engines
On this day #6: A useful search engine
A search engine I wrote about in 2010 still works, and is still useful.
Read MoreThe Carrot2 Search Engine
The Carrot2 search engine can be a useful alternative to Google.
Read MoreHow to remove Babylon from your Firefox browser
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Babylon is an insidious program which, once installed, is a devil of a job to get rid of. An online translator, its website boasts “100 million downloads and counting”. I wonder how many of those were intended.
Because the problem is, as you may have had the misfortune to discover from personal experience, is that if you’re not careful you can install Babylon by accident. And once you’ve done so, it can be extremely irritating because one of the effects of having it on your system is that it makes itself the default search engine in the address bar of your browser.
Using the right search engine
in Handy hints, How to, Technology
What’s the right search engine to use? The answer is: there isn’t one. Different search engines typically give different results from each other, so your best bet is to carry out the same search in several search engines, not just one.
Evaluation of Find That File
in Reviews
I’ve been trying out a search engine I came across called Find That File.
Bad headlines
If there’s one thing that really annoys me it’s chapter headings and article headlines where you can’t tell what the subject matter is until you read it. Who needs a situation in which you don’t know if you want to read something until you have read it? The way I look at it is that if the author can’t even be bothered being clear when he’s trying to entice you to read his stuff, why should you be bothered to oblige him by reading it?
Research Sites for Writers: Collecta
Research Sites for Writers: Bing
in Reviews
Is Bing a sort of poor man’s Google? There is always a temptation to compare any search engine with Google, but each has its own strengths and shortcomings.
Research Sites for Writers: Addictomatic
I’ve recently started using Addictomatic as my first or second port of call as far as search engines are concerned. What it does is pull together, on one page, results from blogs, Bing