[Chester LUG] You've heard about the Google thing..

[John]

Soory could not get there..working on a computer..what a surprise.
Dual booting linux!
john

On 26/01/12 15:00, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Interesting stuff, the whole search engine world seemed to go very
> quiet for a while - like everyone had given up and let Google get on
> with it.
>
> The trouble with all of these is scaling and that's where Google got
> it bang on. They've now got to such a size that all these other sites
> feel so slow - even if we're just talking seconds!
>
> It's really good to have some more competition in this area though and
> I'll have a good play. I do find it funny that this slightly
> anti-Google conversation has included three Gmail users, I'm sure
> they're watching us :-p
>
> Les
>
> On 26 January 2012 14:27, Ben Arnold<BenArnold at fsfe.org>  wrote:
>> Highly recommended, I've had it as my default for months as the search box
>> in my Opera no longer has a Google entry :)
>>
>> I believe this is (to become) the default in Linux Mint n+1, probably just
>> Firefox but I imagine they could do it for all the browsers they package.
>> The bang search terms are ridiculously useful, "!github<search>" etc.,
>> though "!google<search terms>" not so much...
>>
>>
>> I've also come across Seeks, http://www.seeks-project.info/ and search with
>> thier instance https://www.seeks-project.info/search.php, which I think
>> that, as a decentralised service, aims to group users that search for
>> similar terms so they can provide useful results for that group. Sort of
>> like voting up, but not for individual searches. Yes, I'm still confused.
>>
>>
>> Until later,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On 26 January 2012 12:52, Stuart Burns<stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I found out about a new search engine and have been using it for a week or
>>> so. Google like it used to be, without annoying ads, tracking, and asking do
>>> I want to upload to + etc. It also, most importantly has good privacy, and
>>> all sorts of customisable options, to include fully secure search, no search
>>> term passing etc.
>>>
>>> www.duckduckgo.com
>>>
>>> It's clean, it's simple, it's relevant and quick.
>>>
>>> Also it has some geeky toys http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ben Arnold
>> Chester, UK
>>
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