Escape Google With These 12 Search Engine Alternatives - SEW. As concerns over the de facto monopoly status of Google continue to grow, I'm reminded of the great philosopher Herman Cain and his infamous line "blame yourself". As long as "Google" is a generic phrase for Internet search, their dominant position is assured. That said, you can do something about it. There are plenty of Google alternatives and many of these players offer a better search experience, depending on your needs. Here are 12 alternatives to escape your reliance on Google for all things search.
Step 1: Bing If you're a digital marketer using advanced search operators, then use Bing for these queries. LinkFromDomain: There are any number of tools that can give you inbound link data. Feed: Finds RSS or Atom feeds pertaining to the term you specify. Contains: Returns search results that have links to the file types that you specify. Near: Useful for spotting patterns. Step 2: Blekko If you hate spam and love slashtags, then use Blekko. Step 3: Boardreader Step 4: BuzzSumo 11. 12. Not Monkeying Around. Several times on Twitter, Heather Moorefield-Lang, Education Librarian at Virginia Tech and current chairperson of the American Association of School Librarians Best Websites for Teaching & Learning committee has mentioned a curation tool with which she has been experimenting.
I decided to give it a try myself today. This tool is called Gibbon. Gibbon currently can be used without cost. When accessing the home page, you can join, log in or view the menu on the left side. You can join using your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+ account. As soon as you select the Join button, another screen opens. After I choose the Gibbon User Manual the window below opened. Basically this page is a learning flow or a textbook with chapters. When you select a chapter the following window is opened. To start designing a learning flow go to your profile by clicking on the menu icon in the upper left-hand corner. The first thing to note is you can at edit your learning flow at any time (1).
The Worst Passwords To Use. Two recent events illustrate that most people do not protect their data very well online. On October 4, Adobe reported that its systems had been penetrated by attackers who stole 38 million user accounts and passwords. BBC reports that "123456" was the most popular password among the comprimised Adobe users. About 1.9 million people used the sequence. This week security experts from Spiderlab said they discovered a trove 2 million stolen social media passwords from all over the world in a criminal cyber network and analyzed that. Spiderlab reported that "there were more terrible passwords than excellent ones, more bad passwords than good, and the majority, as usual, is somewhere in between in the Medium category. " After comparing it the 2006, Spiderlab concluded that "people still choose comfort over security. " Here are the 20 most popular passwords in the hands of the Adobe hack (Spiderlab's top 10 is similar).
Google Maps Easter Egg Lets You Explore The TARDIS. Gasp! I would’ve had this post written 20 minutes ago, but I was too busy geeking the hell out. Tucked away in a single streetview image of what appears to be a mere police box, a newly discovered Google Maps easter egg lets you go inside the TARDIS. (If you don’t know what the TARDIS is, come on.) How to do it: Click this link Move your mouse around a bit. The standard Google Maps directional arrows should pop up, with one little addition: a pair of double arrows. I figured it’d just be a single, static shot, but no: you can click all around the control room, complete with StreetView’s signature panoramas, navigating all the way down below the main platform for a glimpse at the heart of the TARDIS itself. Can’t find your way in? Man, I wish I had something like this back when I was building my AR TARDIS. (Note: Word is that this easter egg doesn’t always work in the new Google Maps interface, which many of you have likely opted into by now.
[Nice find, Jalopnik!] The 1931 Histomap: The entire history of the world distilled into a single map/chart. The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This “Histomap,” created by John B.
Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.) (Update: Click on the image below to arrive at a bigger version.) This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! The 5-foot-long Histomap was sold for $1 and folded into a green cover, which featured endorsements from historians and reviewers. The actual picture of the march of civilization, from the mud huts of the ancients thru the monarchistic glamour of the middle ages to the living panorama of life in present day America. This stunning geological map of Europe was produced in 1875 by Andre Dumont, a Belgian scientist and mapmaker. The Boyfriend's Guide to Pinterest. Generation Gap.