Your own local search engine.

2012-04-09 1 min read Fedora Learning Uncategorized
There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution. You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions. download omega from http:// xapian.org/download yum install xapian libuuid-devel And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions. Federated Search Engine Diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Create index using command omindex Continue reading

Another nice and feature rich alternative to Google Search

2011-06-27 2 min read Uncategorized
Image via CrunchBase Some time back I had written a post on Scroogle. Scroogle is good, it provides privacy. But if you want more for your browsing experience, something that you thought was always missing in a lot of search engines, then there’s a better search engine and it is DuckDuckGo. The very first reason that you may want to use this search engine is that it does not bubble you and neither it tracks you. Continue reading

10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side

2009-10-17 5 min read Uncategorized
10 Websites to Compare Google vs Bing Results Side By Side Thankfully, the web doesn’t make us take sides. We can have the best of every world. With the launch of Bing, we had another search engine to crawl the web with. A few months and millions of searches down the line, Bing has also built up its legion of users (and fans). It’s Google vs Bing now. The former is still The search engine while the latter calls itself a decision engine. Continue reading