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  2. Search engine privacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_privacy

    Google, founded in 1998, is the most widely used search engine, receiving billions and billions of search queries every month. [8] Google logs all search terms in a database along with the date and time of search, browser and operating system, IP address of user, the Google cookie, and the URL that shows the search engine and search query. [10]

  3. SafeSearch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeSearch

    Once configured, a password is required to change the setting. [1] On December 12, 2012, Google removed the option to turn off the filter entirely, requiring users to enter more specific search queries to access adult content. [3] [4] [5] SafeSearch can be enforced by local area network administrators and ISPs by adding a DNS record. This is ...

  4. Windows Search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Search

    Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for the previous Indexing Service of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, designed to facilitate local and remote queries for files and non-file items in the Windows Shell and ...

  5. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking

    It claims to protect browser settings but actually blocks all attempts to manipulate a browser through the settings page; in other words, it makes sure the malicious settings remain unchanged. Search Protect has an option to change the search homepage from the "recommended" search home page Trovi, however, users have reported it changing back ...

  6. Aardvark (search engine) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)

    Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions, also known as a knowledge market. Users submitted questions via the Aardvark website, email or instant messenger and Aardvark identified and facilitated a live chat or email conversation with one or more ...

  7. Reverse image search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_image_search

    An image search engine is a search engine that is designed to find an image. The search can be based on keywords, a picture, or a web link to a picture. The results depend on the search criterion, such as metadata, distribution of color, shape, etc., and the search technique which the browser uses.

  8. Help:Preferences - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Preferences

    is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text. (See a list of regular expression symbols [5]) To use more of your favorite text editor instead of just the edit box and toolbars, see Wikipedia:Text editor support. Also see the Gadgets tab.

  9. Cuil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

    Cuil (/ ˈ k uː l / KOOL) was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. [1] It went live on July 28, 2008. [1]