Paul, Where do I find my hosts file? I like the idea of doing this - but it is the how!
Thanks, Andrew On 31 Jan 2012, at 11:16 pm, Paul Russell wrote: > I've become a convert to DuckDuckGo of late. It's much cleaner, faster, > simpler and less cluttered than Google - somewhat like how Google was about > 10 - 12 years ago. It also seems to give me much better search results - I > found a birthday present for my son that I'd been looking for via Google for > ages without any lucj. > > One thing you can to to make life better in Safari is to (a) set your home > page to duckduckgo.com and (b) edit your hosts file so that Yahoo searches go > to duckduckgo.com - then change the search box default from Google to Yahoo > and it will use DuckDuckGo for all your searches. You need to add a line like > this to /etc/hosts: > > 184.72.115.86 search.yahoo.com > > You can still go back to Google if you want to and no one uses Yahoo for > searches anyway. > > Paul > > On 27 Jan 2012, at 19:44, mac98aop wrote: > >> Yes, I believe in Firefox you can go to Preferences, enter it as a >> search engine and make it default. >> >> You can in Chrome. >> >> Typically, I prefer Safari, where you can't! >> >> Ramifications indeed, not least I hadn't realised that it Google try >> to tailor their results to me.. hence if I search for something on my >> wife's Mac, different results pop up compared to mine. >> >> That's not useful. It's annoying. >> >> >> >> On Jan 26, 7:19 pm, andrew lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can it be made the default search engine on, say, Firefox - or is it a case >>> of having to go to it before running a search? >>> >>> I was rather startled to find how much information is retained. So, every >>> time I google asthma, or alcoholic liver disease, or pancreatic cancer (I >>> always look up what friends or relatives have to see if I can find anything >>> that might help) I could be leaving a trail that would make, for example, >>> BUPA, see me as a really bad risk? >>> >>> And that is only one example - the ramifications are legion. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> On 25 Jan 2012, at 10:53 am, mac98aop wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Using this as my search engine, and rather recommend. >>> >>>> Okay, it lacks a certain speed and panache of Google, but it's not >>>> recording my every move, or any move for that matter, so I rather like >>>> it! >>> >>>> Now, if only Safari would let me edit my search engine options? Why >>>> WOULD Apple lock that down? >>> >>>> Money talks? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
