When it comes to your choice of search engine it can seem like Hobson’s Choice. All that appears to be on offer is a selection of ad-based search engines with not much differentiation, and so most people tend to stick with their browser’s default setting (usually Google). However, Better Internet…

Meet my pal Henry Hoover we have been hoovering the stairs today and just stopped for a wee photoshoot. Henry is not really a Hoover he is a vacuum cleaner made by Numatic International. However, ‘hoover’ (verb) means ‘to clean a carpet, floor, etc. with a vacuum cleaner’ or some similar description according to most dictionaries with no actual reference to the Hoover brand name. …

I am delighted to report that the alternative search engine that we (Better Internet Search) have been developing since 2019 with the support of the European Union, is now live and available for anyone to use. I can give a money-back guarantee that the results are at least as good…

For those that just like the headlines; the books are ‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier, ‘Life after Google’ by George Gilder and ‘The Return of Reginald Perrin’ by David Nobbs, and the question is ‘Do I need a psychologist?’

Better Internet Search has announced that it will be working closely with Danish-led Partisia Blockchain to deliver an even more secure search engine with tokens secured using blockchain technology. The project is supported by the EU funded Next Generation Internet Trust. The NGI Trust supports the development of a human-centric internet and provides grant assistance for projects via the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Today’s internet search engines have an estimated four billion active users. …

Search engine dominance and bias is easy to achieve if you have a large budget. Big brands are highly visible to search users, the unfortunate corollary to this is that unknown brands and those with small marketing budgets are almost invisible to on-line searches conducted using Google. In this situation both the search user and independent retailers lose out. The search user might actually be…

“Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do…

This is a guest blog post by Jack Warner of TechWarn. The French government bids farewell to Google and adopts Qwant. At the end of last year, the French National Assembly announced that they are not going to use Google anymore. All the devices belonging to the French government will adopt a new search engine called Qwant, which is privacy-focused. …

The answer is no! … Okay, that would be a very short read so maybe I should provide the reasoning behind this short answer. …