At our November seminar, I briefly answered the question: Should you use the DuckDuckGo browser? In this post, I'd like to expand on that question. Also, I want to share some setting suggestions should you decide to use it. Privacy DuckDuckGo's claim to fame is that searches are more private. Therefore, when you search for …
Category: Search
The Search Engine Battle – Part 4 * Conclusion
The search engine battle - Part 4 * Conclusion. As I've been saying all along, the battle is alive and well, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this series. You definitely want to read that post before you peruse this one. You'll find it HERE. In that post, I gave a list of the …
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The Search Engine Battle – Part 3 * DuckDuckGo
The search engine battle - Part 3 * DuckDuckGo. Yes, the battle is alive and well, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this series. You want to read that post before you peruse this one. You'll find it HERE. In that post, I gave a list of the advantages and disadvantages of Google Search. …
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The Search Engine Battle – Part 2 * This time it’s Bing
The search engine battle is alive and well and this time it's Bing. You definitely want to read Part 1 of this series before you peruse this one. You'll find it HERE. In that post, I gave a list of the advantages and disadvantages of Google Search. In this post, we'll cover Microsoft's Bing search. …
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The Search Engine Battle – Part 1
The search engine battle is alive and well. People often ask me two questions: which browser should I use and which search engine is best? I answer the browser question this way: "On my main Windows computer in the shop, I have ten (10) browsers installed. I often use them for specific functions. For example, …
A.I. in Microsoft Edge
A.I. in Microsoft Edge! It's only the beginning! Soon, Google Chrome will have Bard. (I'm testing it now.) Welcome to the new world of computing! Remember What I Did? If you're a 4KCC Blog dedicated reader, you may recall my post from February 13, 2023: "The History of Artificial Intelligence: A Timeless Journey." You might …
Three More Search “Tricks”
Let's look at three more search tricks! You may recall, in my post of February 5, 2022, Searching The Unusual Ways, I explained searching with a photo. I received a ton of reactions from people who had no clue that you could do that. Each of them was excited about the idea of using a …
Searching – The Unusual Ways
Let's Talk about Searching - The Unusual Ways You may not know about searching - the unusual ways. Sure, you know about normal searching. You type in some words and hit the search button. Or maybe you even know about using the microphone to verbally search. Since you already know about these methods of searching, …
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
Seriously, I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Why, Joyce even bought me a shirt with that same message. (See above!) A Hippopotamus For Christmas? Do I really want a Hippo for Christmas? If you are asking if I want to have to feed, house, bathe and care for a real semiaquatic mammal which can weigh …
Google Search Settings
In this post, I'm going to talk about Google search settings. Why? I want you to know about the settings because of what happened to one of our customers. I received a phone call from a woman who was very distraught over something that appeared when she performed a search. She demanded to know why …
Veterans Day 2020
Hopefully, all of us will be honoring our Veterans this November 11th. Of course, we really should be doing that every day but at least we'll specifically be thankful for their service on this day. As I usually do, I turn to the Internet to look up information about this particular celebration. Of course, I …
A Real HUMdinger
Do you ever have a melody in your head that you just can't remember its name or the words? Thursday, Google announced a new search feature. You can now hum a tune and Google search will return the most likely song. You don't even have to be all that good at humming! You do, however, …
Try This Search!
Once again, in the past week, I have two long-time customers who fell for a scam. Even though I've talked about the types of scams with which they got involved, they fell for it anyway. Just today, a scammer tried to get almost $700 from one of these customers. With that in mind, here's what …
Searching Tools You Should Be Using
https://youtu.be/f6FhkKBazu0 If you missed our live stream last Saturday, I encourage you to watch the recording of it. Just click on the Play button above! In this video, we explore great tools which will cut your search times, return more accurate information and just make searching so much easier. Of great interest in this video …
Put This On Your Calendar!
https://youtu.be/u_oHo_mCaTs Time after time, people log into our Remote Support to ask for help in finding something on the Internet. Whether you use Google Search, Bing Search, DuckDuckGo or some other search engine, they all have tools. These tools help you search better, faster, and with more accurate results. I'm going to cover this in …
Labor Day Answers
Did you watch our Labor Day 2020: Worst One In Our History? video? If not, please take a few minutes to watch it before you continue reading. https://youtu.be/75Zi0bYlKl8 After you watched the video, did you do the searching I asked you to do? If you did, let's see if you found the correct answers. Question …
Encrypted But Not Legit?
Those nasty scammers. They will do just about anything to try to steal your money. One of the things they've started to do is purchase security certificates for their bogus websites. They realize that most computer users have come to understand that the "s" in https:// stands for "secure." A website is secure when everything …
iPhone Spotlight Search
If you are an Android smart phone user, my apologies. This post is about a particular iPhone feature. Have no fear, though, I'll be publishing a post later in the week about an Android-only feature! Please be on the lookout for that post! Through customers and friends, I've found that the iPhone has a great …
Get Rid Of Bing? Google?
One of the questions I hear often is "How can I get rid of Bing?" If not that question, then this one: "How can I get rid of Google?" Before I can explain how to get rid of them, I need to talk about what they are. Bing and Google are search engines provided by …
Search: Look Before You Leap
In my post on June 25, 2019 - www What? - I talked about searching and the number which is sometimes added after the www. Today, I want to share what you should look for BEFORE you click a search result. Let's look at the first seven search results from a query I made entitled …
Time Change
In yesterday's post, I talked about changing the time-frame of your search in Bing and/or Google. A number of people mentioned that they didn't know how you could do that. They asked if I could explain. So, here you go! Bing Search Go ahead and search whatever terms you want. After the results have appeared, …
It’s A Monday Cornucopia!
You'll recall that yesterday, I posted about the Super Blood Wolf Moon (http://www.4kcc.com/blog/2019/01/20/instead-of-going-to-bed-early/). The picture above was taken from our backyard at 12 Midnight. It was a little cloudy plus my iPhone X just couldn't get a closer view, so the picture's not great. If you look on Social Media, you'll see lots of people …
Instead Of Going To Bed Early…
Why not watch the Super Blood Wolf Moon lunar eclipse! Yes, there will be some excitement in the sky this evening over North and South America, as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. It's a full lunar eclipse and it will be fun to see. Here are the facts according to NASA: the …
It’s Gonna Be A L-O-N-G Night!
Today is a pretty interesting day! This is one of those days where you should really do some searching to gain knowledge about the shortest day of the year. In Bing, search "winter solstice" without the quotation marks. If you prefer Google search, use the same term. No matter which search engine you use, you'll …