FAQICA: There are other search engines

16 April 2015

There are other search engines

Google's excellent response to the EC moan about promotion of their own areas in searches, the Android-Google tie-in and other stuff, is on their general blog. (You may need to look back to 15 April). There are other search engines and phones and Brussels bureaucrats need to understand that most people are not stupid. Even if they are stupid there's no reason to impose massive fines on Google. If I were in charge of the algorithms I might be tempted to make some obscure organisations appear first in searches for European Commission or similar. Maybe something to do with cucumber research or techniques for calculating the length of an island shoreline.

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Whilst I am quite happy using Google, DuckDuckGo is pleasantly different and may provide some alternative top results of interest.

https://duckduckgo.com/

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Frequently asked questions I can answer. I used to have piles of notes about all sorts of ICT things that I needed for classes but nowadays there doesn't seem to be much of that sort of training so most of the time I'm answering individual questions about how to do this or that. Often I'll reply in an e-mail or scribble something down or just go and show people on the job and it occurred to me that all that one-off effort could be put to better use if I could at least make a list of the ones I remembered, and so here we go.