Pages Tagged “Search”
Reviews
- DuckDuckGo ★★★★☆ A private-ish search engine that’s also serving less slop than Google. Disposable email aliases are convenient. The browser extension and standalone browser block known trackers, and the Android app can block trackers in other apps too.
- Ecosia (Search) ★★★☆☆ Non-profit search provider that uses renewable energy and partners with environmental organizations. AKA “the search engine that plants trees.”
Tech Tips
- A9 and the demise of SiteInfo (Obsolete) Amazon.com’s search site, A9, has scaled back drastically. The rewards program is gone, as are bookmarks and history. They’ve even discontinued the A9 toolbar.
- Toolbars That Phone Home (Obsolete) I installed the Firefox versions of four toolbars and used netstat to see when they connected.
Blog Posts
- Ideas for Unifying a Fragmented Website
My website’s built with a mix of WordPress, hand-coded HTML, and multiple Eleventy instances, which means tags and search are fragmented.
- Tired of Eventbrite Spam
Eventbrite has worked well for buying tickets to events I’ve attended… But over the last few months I keep getting spam for events that are not only not remotely interesting, they aren’t anywhere NEAR me. Sorry, but I’m not hopping on a plane for a pub crawl on the other side of the continent or […]
- Strange Searches
Some interesting search phrases that have brought readers to this site recently: southpoint hoyel haunyed – It’s not the typos that I find funny here (the keys are right next to each other), but the thought that the hotel’s air pressure problems causing whistling doorjambs may have given rise to a reputation for it being […]
- Traffic Spike on the Balloon
6 years ago I titled a blog post “Offensive Driving.” It’s getting a traffic spike from people searching for a particular “handbook.” Blame Balloon Boy.
- Tax Dancer
Amusing: Someone hit this post after searching for “dancing tax preparer.” Is it really that common?
- Not so Random
I wanted to take a look at Firefox’s error page a few minutes ago, so I selected the address bar and hit some random keys. Due to a lack of sleep last night and a day of caffeine, I’d forgotten that if it can’t find a site with a given hostname (and still can’t find […]
- What people look for
It’s always interesting to see what people are searching for when they find this site. It’s even more interesting to look at the bottom of the list, the long tail full of one-off searches, some of which… can be really strange. “what to do with tumbleweeds” — Hmm. Mash âem, boil âem, put âem in […]
- This isn’t going to last long
Did a Google search just for the heck of it. I wonder how quickly those numbers will climb…
- Strange Searches
Some odd searches through which people have found this site over the last two weeks: “vice presidential debate drinking game” somehow hit Fallacious Arguments, despite the fact that the post never mentions a drinking game. “breakdown girl” hit Donna Troy via Yahoo images search. Somehow it seems appropriate. “folsom street fair 2004 pictures” and similar […]