Thord D. Hedengren

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Tag: search

  • You really should use DuckDuckGo

    Casey Liss on using DuckDuckGo instead of Google for web search, summing it up nicely here, including the solution for those who haven’t learned how to search properly:

    If I’m doing a search in DuckDuckGo and I’m not satisfied with the results, I just prefix !g to the search query, and I get the Google results I’m used to.

    As an added benefit, DuckDuckGo does as much as possible to prevent your data from leaking to advertisers via Google. Instead of sending you to www.google.com, you’re sent to encrypted.google.com. This has several benefits, most notably, preventing advertisers (and destination sites) from seeing what you’ve searched for.

    I agree. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for web searches, mobile and on desktop, for years. It feels good not giving all that information so readily to Google and their advertisers. There’s enough of that going around on the web as it is.

  • Google's mobile friendly search

    Google will highlight what they believe to be mobile friendly web pages in mobile search.

    Starting today, to make it easier for people to find the information that they’re looking for, we’re adding a “mobile-friendly” label to our mobile search results.

    Details here, but just about any responsive site should be fine. This is a good thing for the web, and I hope other search engines will follow.

  • Delicious, another casualty of search

    I used to love Delicious, I really did. It was the bookmarking tool, one of many, that made sense to me back in the day. But things change, or in the case of Delicious, they don’t and that was the problem. Today’s Delicious isn’t far from the service I used on a daily basis years ago. And now it is shutting down, as widely reported.

    Maybe that’s the reason why I’ve added a mere handful of bookmarks to my account this year, and not even once looked anything up. I used to do that you know, but no more.

    Why? Well, there just isn’t any need for bookmarks in that sense anymore, search is that good.

    There might have been a place for Delicious in today’s social web. After all, it could be a bookmark/link discovery engine and I’d like to think that could’ve complemented Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader in some way. That is, if Yahoo and Delicious had been on the ball earlier in the game.

    That ship have sailed. So long Delicious, and thanks for the early years at least. You used to matter, there’s always that.