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100 Search Engines - Why use one, when you can have 100 Search Engines. FindForward. Accessing the Data. Siri and Wolfram: friends with benefits - Nerdcam - Blogs. Loading... Please wait. Once you've found out what the weather's like in Ukraine, and asked what the meaning of life is, Apple's Siri assistant can seem pretty useless — doubly so, if you're in Australia. But if you team it up with Wolfram Alpha, you can get some nice results to questions with substance. Because Siri still bears the dreaded "beta" tag, it's missing some key functionality for the Australian market, including compatibility with the Maps application, and the all-important business search, to name a few. But asking questions via intelligent search engine Wolfram Alpha gets you a whole other level of results. Instead of asking questions directly to Siri, tell it to ask Wolfram Alpha instead.

"Ask Wolfram Alpha: what shall we do with a drunken sailor? " That's still quite a silly question, but it gets a quick response. Other, more helpful, questions to ask include: "Ask Wolfram Alpha: generate a random password" "Ask Wolfram Alpha: what satellites are overhead? " Human-flesh Search Engines in China.

Search PoweredBy SurfWax® Yippy – Welcome to the Cloud. Web Search. Innovation: Shrewd search engines know what you want - tech - 09 July 2010. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 For better or worse, search engines have become the gateway to the web. They help users to find information, advertisers to sell products – they even help hackers in their shady pursuits. So they are also the focus of intense research to variously help or hinder those parties. The cut-throat competition among search engines has ensured the operators are keenly attuned to keeping their visitors satisfied. But serving up handy links is a tricky business, especially when we searchers often use ambiguous terms.

Demographic data can help, say Ingmar Weber and Carlos Castillo at Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain. By giving a search engine some basic demographic information, such as age, gender and educational background, it is possible to boost the engine's chances of identifying user intent correctly, say Weber and Castillo. Follow the cursor Malicious intent But search engines have a dark side too. More From New Scientist More from the web Recommended by. Dogpile Web Search. IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine. 13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t.

Advertisement R.I.P Google. What would be your first reaction if you saw this? Scared, because your life is completely enslaved to Google. Or, hopeful because this suggests that something better has already arrived? Well, no one is chipping on that digital tombstone yet. But it does not mean that there is no grass outside that fence. These Search Engines Do What Google (Still) Can’t Some are worthy contenders for the second-place medallion while some are just go into those niche corners of the web. 1. Google does good for the world in its own way. Read through their FAQ where they open up about the project and also show you the progress of their planting programs. 2. Open your bag of privacy tools to add Qwant to the collection of no-tracking search engines.

Even when you are connected with an ID, we don’t use any cookie nor any other tracking device when you browse the site. Local storage on your machine is used to save your settings and data. 3. 4. 5. 6. Let’s talk about kids. 7. 8. 10. Top 6 Underground Search Engines You Never Knew About. Advertisement I love Google, Bing and Yahoo just as much as the next Internet user, but sometimes you really want to dig down into a particular subject. In order to do that, you really need access to those underground search engines that may not be quite as well known, but they dig much more deeply into specialized areas of the Internet than the general search engines are capable of.

In many cases, these search engines are tapped into what is currently termed the “invisible web,” which is the information available on the Internet that standard search engines don’t have access to, because they are buried behind query forms or directory requests. The following 6 underground search engines that I chose are not porn sites, illegal piracy sites or anything else that could get you in trouble with the law, or with your significant other. Instead, I term the following as “underground search engines” for two reasons. Here is a search for “classical music,” with over 300 results.