How To Remove Search Engines (Specifically Yahoo) From Firefox / Flock

April 29th, 2006 Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer. It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor.

February 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - In a rare instance of collaboration among otherwise fierce rivals, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

August 23rd, 2006 Search engines like Google often fetch your site description from ODP (Open Directory Project) description instead of fetching it from the site content or meta-tags. This may not always be desirable as it may not represent your site properly.

July 30th, 2009 A look at how the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will workAlthough Yahoo and Microsoft could soon be working together on Internet search, their collaboration would mostly occur behind the scenes. Consumers would still see Yahoo's logo striped across Yahoo.com.

October 25th, 2005 If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.

August 9th, 2006 Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users. The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id.

May 19th, 2009 Google retains its top slot in the search engine market being the destination for largest number of web surfers in April. According to the recent data released by comSourceThe searchers throughout the month touched the 9.5 billion mark.

October 23rd, 2005 WordPress.Com is a commercial venture from the authors of popular weblogging software - WordPress. They provide free weblog to selected individuals based on God-knows-what criteria.

November 10th, 2006 You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines.

August 11th, 2009 Google provides peek into new search engineNEW YORK — Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate. The new engine, available at a separate address, looks the same as the current one but ranks results differently, which could affect businesses who rely on Google results to drive traffic.

November 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.

August 21st, 2005 When FireFox is used through AnalogX Proxy (a popular free proxy server) a strange error persistently happens if you have too many browser windows open. All of your requests get strangely redirected to the last opened site.

March 1st, 2005 Too bad their sample request url's do not work! Their width of services is more than google - image, news and video search capability in addition to standard web search. They seem to think that location based search is a separate category.

November 10th, 2006 Opera Browser is the best in terms of search engine integration. It allows you to easily add your own search engines, access search engines by a single alphabet and finally set any search engine as the default.