May 20, 2013
Written over two decades ago and with no updates since then, Archie provides a very different search experience than we're used to today. So how is it different, and could it still be useful today? I'll take you on a tour of this pioneering search engine and give you a perspective of how things have changed over the past 23 years.
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May 17, 2013
It was only 15 years ago that the best you could do to find a person online was look for him on ICQ and hope you find his name. If you managed to do that, you were actually nowhere nearer to knowing anything about this person, except for the fact he owns an ICQ account. If you were very brave, you might have requested to add that person to your contacts, just to see what happens.
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May 16, 2013
It only takes Google's thousands of servers half a second to query approximately 50 billion indexed pages, it takes you significantly longer to scan only the first page of search results. On top of that, you are likely to digress and open irrelevant sites. Why don't you do your constantly distracted and easily overwhelmed brain a huge favor and learn how to properly construct a search?
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April 19, 2013
What's a safe way to find new websites you're going to like? Based on websites you already like, of course. That's what SimilarSites for Firefox does, and apparently it does it well enough to be featured on our list of Best Firefox Addons. But I'm here to take a closer look and see just how it performs in real life. To test it out, I am going to try it out on a number of websites I like and see if it comes up with interesting results.
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April 7, 2013
Using Gmail search often? Google has has just made auto-complete in the search box even better. The new feature will offer better suggestions as you type, and should help you search your oceanic inbox more efficiently. Auto-complete suggestions will now include your previous Gmail searches, as well as contact thumbnails in the search dropdown next to your contacts' names and addresses.
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December 20, 2012
When we think of searching the Internet, we without a doubt think “Google”. And why not? It’s a fantastic search engine and has some great features. But even before the idea of writing this article, I started Bing again and I was quite surprised. Then, the more I used it, the more fascinating things I discovered on it.
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December 17, 2012
Change is the only constant. This is becoming even more true as we rely on web apps that can change out from under us. One day you’re using a familiar interface with features you rely on, and the next day you open your browser to realize that the interface you rely on is gone. We’re naturally wired to dislike change – even positive change – but not all change is for the best.
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November 13, 2012
Everyone has their set of favorite websites. No matter what your hobbies and interests are, I’m sure you can think of at least five websites you love and visit often just off the top of your head. But just like other habits, when we’re set in our ways and our websites, we don’t always remember to look elsewhere. The World Wide Web is not static, though. It’s dynamic and changing fast, with hundreds of new websites added daily.
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September 17, 2012
For more day to day mundane uses, we need free images for decorate a blog post, seek inspiration, set a wallpaper, make a collage, or just finish the school homework. This post thus takes a ‘back-to-basics’ approach and attempts to go over the same image searching ground as before, but in a more comprehensive manner. I hope to again show that searching for the right free image is easy enough, provided you know where to look.
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September 16, 2012
I remember the very first time that I actually discovered the usefulness of Firefox’s search bar. Up until just before that point, all of my web-searching antics started with navigating to Google, by URL, and then beginning my search. Being able to cut a step out of the process really has its perks, and especially [...]
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September 12, 2012
With little things like Android apps, there are quite a few free lunches we can dine on. They may come with restrictions and the eye-sore of advertisements, but if they are usable, you would like nothing better than to hold on to the cents and dollars. As we have discovered with software, for every paid application there could be a free one out there coded by someone who doesn’t have to bother about his next lunch. So, here are two websites that can give us the free alternative to the paid Android app.
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September 8, 2012
Get information while on the go, even if your phone isn't all that smart. All you need to do is send a text to Google. Look up the phone numbers of local businesses, check the status of any flight, translate any word, convert currencies or see scores for recent game. All this and more is a single SMS message away, regardless of what kind of phone you use. Google's SMS Search is little-known, and doesn't work as well as it used to, but it's a great way to look up information.
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September 3, 2012
Google is the ultimate search engine and it is supposed to answer everything like the Grand Oracle. But what if you just don’t have the question with you? Or a smidgen of a clue about it? In those foggy states of mental fugue, it helps to have a more structured source for information. There’s actually no reason for us to suffer more than necessary because information is all around us. We just have to search-refer-and grab the thread. When I am stuck, one of the resources I use to pummel the writer’s block is Wapedia.
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September 2, 2012
We reach for Facebook when it comes to photo sharing with friends on the web. All those accumulated memories are a resource when you are searching about something. Bing makes it slightly easier to connect photos and search now with a new feature called Friends’ Photo. Bing being a search engine first and foremost, it is obvious the new feature is meant for searching and browsing through all shared albums and photos in your Facebook social circle.
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August 28, 2012
When it comes to textual works, we have seen how easy it is to catch the copycats. But what about pictures and photographs? Is image search that easy? Probably not; but that’s not to say it is impossible because image search technologies have evolved. Making an effort to defeat image plagiarism is this simple Firefox extension called Who Stole My Pictures.
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