Tag: search engines

  • Discover the real internet with Wiby

    Discover the real internet with Wiby

    In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages.  The Wiby search engine is…

  • Searching… 🔎

    Searching… 🔎

    Where do you go when you want to find something on the internet? If you are like most people, you start at Google. Over the last year, a whopping 92% of searches conducted were with the Silicon Valley tech giants. But where do the other 8% go? There are actually many alternatives to searching the…

  • Links of the week: Planting trees, hacker news & self-reflection

    Links of the week: Planting trees, hacker news & self-reflection

    Some weeks you can feel like you can do a lot but have nothing to show for it. This week almost feels like one of those weeks. I have been busy, but I can’t tell you what I’ve done. And not because I am keeping it a secret. This weekend is coming to a close.…

  • Links of the week

    Links of the week

    Google react to being called out over anti-trust issues. Is the Google alternative Ecosia legit? And some extra CSS-related links.

  • Links of the week

    Links of the week

    This week’s links include a new search engine, a new Twitter, a new Manchester United comeback and the same old online privacy issues.

  • Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

    Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

    I try to use Google products rarely and this includes when searching the web. Over the years, I have jumped between a few alternatives; DuckDuckGo, Bing, and now Ecosia. The real jump away from Google was when DuckDuckGo became a viable alternative that vowed to not track your activities around the web in order to…