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Tip: How to search for an App in the Windows 8 Store
Thursday, 6 December 2012 | Jason SlaterUntil we all get used to Windows 8, and its charms, many of us are likely to find certain things in the new Windows 8 somewhat unintuitive. They aren’t of course – we’re just used to doing things differently.
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Microsoft and Yahoo! What’s In It For Us?
Tuesday, 9 March 2010 | Jason SlaterSo, Microsoft and Yahoo! have taken another step closer to striking a deal – but what does this mean for us?
Yahoo! was once a dominant force, perhaps even the de facto name, in the search engine business and whatever … Read More
Visualise Your Search With SortFix
Thursday, 25 February 2010 | Jason SlaterRegular readers to this blog will know I have a heavy interest in search engine technology, and even have my own search engine development project simmering away for research purposes.
So, when I hear about a new kind of search engine – the antennae on the radar go wild – this was the case with SortFix.
The aim of SortFix is “to help users get more accurate answers, faster, and make the search process a more efficient and enjoyable one” – high aims indeed.
Keeping Your Search Quiet In Windows 7
Saturday, 20 February 2010 | Jason SlaterIf you use a shared Windows 7 computer and want to keep your search queries private you can highlight each search term in the drop list and press the Delete key on the keyboard (hold down the Delete key … Read More
Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of Windows XP
Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Jason SlaterIf you don’t perform much file searching on your Windows XP Computer or, perhaps, you use another search provider for searching local files you might be able to squeeze a little more performance out of your computer by telling it not to index your hard disks.
