Many, many years ago Google Search conquered — there’s no other word for it — the Internet. None could stand before it, not Yahoo!, not AltaVista, Not Ask Jeeves. It was brilliant: a single text box, in which one could type anything, hit Return and get excellent-quality results. It even grew smart enough to know individual users.
No more. Today, I had a problem with sp-kill-hybrid-sexp (a Emacs command in teh smartparens package to delete the remainder of a line, respecting S-expression delimiters) hanging in SLY, so I searched for sp-kill-hybrid-sexp sly slow.
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Peter Bright makes a cogent argument that the Web now belongs to Google — and that should worry us all. I strongly encourage my friends & readers to install Firefox on their computers and their phones (and to use Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a reskinned Safari, due to Apple’s draconian platform policies).
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Lifehacker presents ten Google search tricks. Pretty good stuff to know.
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Lifehacker presents ten Google search tricks. Pretty good stuff to know.
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