On the one hand, I hate paywalls. I spend much of my day reading the news and paywalls are the bane of my existence. I want the news, not a login page. […]
Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets
Look out for Junk Sources in Google News
Updated 2/6: Hello BuzzFeed News readers! The latest thing driving me crazy in Google News is Gizmo Writeup. I’m pretty sure it’s just using some kind of rewrite software, else how would […]
New Video Metasearch Features a Guy and His Cat
I hate YouTube’s search options. Hate hate hate them. I’ve considered an article writing about how much I hate them, but that seemed indulgent when I had no way to fix any […]
Startpage.com Has a New Look and a Lot of Functionality
When it comes to search engines, Google seems to get most of the headlines with an occasional nod to Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, or Baidu. And while it’s true that there are far, […]
In Praise of Inurl:
Writing last week’s article took me back to the early days of the Web. (I had to walk ten miles through the snow uphill to get online, you know.) Web searching was […]
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