#Business #Announcements
New back button hijacking spam policy · Google will penalize sites that manipulate the browser back button https://ilo.im/16c589

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#Google #Policy #SearchEngine #SEO #Spam #Websites #Browsers #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Im shocked at how unusable Google search has become at this point.

Yesterday I was trying to search something on the internet on the phone of a friend of mine. Of course google was the standard search engine. It just showed me links to products. It was incredible. Not a single useful source. I used #duckduckgo to try again and the third result was useful. Please do yourself a favor and switch to a decent search engine!
#degoogle #searchengine

Anyone using Pagefind (https://pagefind.app)? Any opinion?

#web #searchengine #question #informatic #wabsite

#moteurderecherche #searchengine

Bon, j'essaie🇨🇭 #swisscows comme moteur de recherche... en plus de mon #mojeek

J'ai l'impression que ça cloche avec certaine recherche avec duckduckgo, ecosia...

Je vais expérimenter ☺️.

En espérant que j'aille une amélioration. 🖥️

🙂 👋

Holos Discover, a fediverse search engine, automaticly indexing your fediverse posts.

Amazing, 4 615 000+ posts indexed to date

https://discover.holos.social/

#searchengine #holos

My default search engine is #wikipedia
I have nine items in the #searchengine drop-down menu.

#librewolf #firefox

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #pda #pocketpc #WindowsCE #InternetExplorer

Catch of the Day: The Return of the Pocket PCs! 📱🖊️

Hey Retro Fans!

Just in time for the weekend, we are shining our spotlight on a very special class of devices that popped up in our logs today: The forefathers of the smartphone!

An Internet Explorer 4.01 running on a classic Pocket PC (Windows CE) made an impressive return.
Think back to the late 90s and early 2000s: Before we all carried capacitive glass touchscreens in our pockets, devices like the Compaq iPAQ, the HP Jornada, or the Casio Cassiopeia ruled the business world. You operated them using a tiny plastic stylus on a resistive 240x320 pixel display.

Modern, image-heavy, and script-bloated websites will instantly bring these early handhelds to their knees. But FrogFind, with its pure text output, is an absolute blessing for the limited memory and tiny screens of these PDAs. It’s wonderful to see that you haven't hung up your styluses just yet!

We wish you a great weekend – stay mobile and retro!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Up until yesterday, I used to use google as my primary #searchengine. I tried to move away to my own home-hosted and VPS hosted #searxng instances back in early 2023 but it did not stick.

I kept trying to ditch #Google but I was never happy with the alternatives. It just felt different. Until yesterday. I was sick of the constant captchas I was getting through Google.com not liking the cromite browser I was using on my phone or that I don't have an account logged in.

I realized that the circumstances were quite similar to my fediverse switch and felt an urge to not put up with this and switch. (And write a blog about it)

Now I'm on #DuckDuckGo. It's a nice, simple life :D

https://sounddrill31.github.io/blog/p/migrations/searchengines/fossconfessions/

#OpenSearchCon Europe is just 1️⃣ week away!
One special thing about this year's event is the new Search & Apache Lucene track. This gives the stage for broader discussions around search & relevancy strategies and the Lucene that sits at the heart of the OpenSearch Project.

16-17 April in Prague 🏰🇨🇿

Search & Apache Lucene track schedule: https://opensearchconeu2026.sched.com/overview/type/Search+&+Apache+Lucene
Full schedule: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/opensearchcon-europe/program/schedule/
Registration: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/opensearchcon-europe/register/
#opensearch #opensource #search #searchengine @TheASF