Thansk I will experiment when I have a moment. Google Scholar is still one Google option that works for me.
Bill On 26/02/2012, at 7:08 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Bill, > > BING is a good search engine, but there are others that I mentioned in my > previous email that have more privacy & less spam. > > <http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/5-secret-search-engines-way-better-than-google/> > 5 Secret Search Engines Way Better Than Google > "While Google, Yahoo, and Bing are currently the most popular search engines, > particularly with English speakers, web users do have other options that > offer them more flexibility, more privacy, and promise they won’t be > inundated by spam and useless content that often show up in the search > results from the more well-known search engines." > > Gizmodo has called Bing a much better search engine than Google. > Google Just Made Bing The Best Search Engine > <http://www.businessinsider.com/google-just-made-bing-the-best-search-engine-2012-1> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 25/02/2012, at 4:54 PM, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Finally got rid of Google accounts - all gone. >> >> What's the alternative to Google? BING looks promising. Nice touch when >> you first go there: a grapic of the Indian Ocean with snippets of history >> about Rottnest. >> Bill >> >> >> >> On 24/02/2012, at 7:54 PM, cm wrote: >> >>> One more possibility occurred to me. If you are using the online mail >>> archive, it probably does not support embedded links. So here is the link >>> spelled out: >>> >>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect >>> >>> Hope this one works. :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> >>> On 24/02/2012, at 19:44 , cm wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Darrel, >>>> >>>> Thanks for pointing that out. I had a cut-and-past excerpt from the news >>>> aggregator site in the original post. My guess is that for some reason it >>>> doesn't show up in your email client -- might have to do with text colour >>>> or font. It does show up, incidentally, in your reply to me. Probably >>>> because that is plain text rather than RTF. So here is the message in >>>> plain text with the appropriate link. Let me know if there is a problem... >>>> >>>>> "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com >>>>> — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The >>>>> change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF >>>>> have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web >>>>> history at Google." >>>> >>>> >>>> Click on the simple instructions link in the above excerpt and there is an >>>> easy four step process to delete your web-search history and to pause it >>>> so it will no longer be collected -- at least not where it is easily >>>> accessed. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> >>>> On 24/02/2012, at 19:35 , Darrel McGuiness wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Carlo, >>>>> What excerpt >>>>> Regards >>>>> Darrel >>>>> On 23/02/2012, at 10:17 PM, cm wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Muggers, >>>>>> >>>>>> If you have a gmail mail account, you may also have a search history >>>>>> with Google. To quote a news aggregator site >>>>>> >>>>>> "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at >>>>>> google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do >>>>>> it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks >>>>>> at EFF have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your >>>>>> web history at Google." >>>>>> >>>>>> Click on the simple instructions link in the above excerpt and there is >>>>>> an easy four step process to delete your web-search history and to pause >>>>>> it so it will no longer be collected -- at least not where it is easily >>>>>> accessed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Carlo >>>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
