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The OTHER search engines.

September 3, 2022August 23, 2022 by S-Config

Wait, there’s more than Google?

Yes, there’s Bing. Just saved you from going to a large tech site and thumbing through 5-10 pages of ad-sponsor hell while they divide up the list to 10 pages in a desperate attempt to improve clicks. You’re welcome.

Seriously; We can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen the article “Top 10 Search Engines” from countless bloggers only to find out that if you are in an English-speaking country. You pretty much have different flavors of Google dominating %80 of the market (Duckduckgo, Presearch, SearX, AskJeeves, and the list goes on where they mindlessly accept either a Google or Microsoft aggregate instead of doing the hard work themselves.) Beyond that, there is Microsoft Bing with their %8 and finally, Yahoo is still hanging in there with their %2 of total internet searches. Where do these percentiles come from? Like other bloggers, we pulled those percentiles out of thin air!

But it sure as hell feels that way!

Would you like to know more? Read onward

Clarification time!

July 31, 2022November 13, 2021 by S-Config

It’s time to shed some light and clarification on some of the things we do here.

Lately, we’ve gotten some feedback that people are getting our message and wanting to start a website which is excellent. The more people that start their own website means less centralization underneath the banner of a major conglomerate. Especially to those who choose a local or small web provider that gives you superior service versus the complete ambivalence of sites such as GoDaddy. Now for those who are interested in how we got into the blogging business, we have an article talking about how trials and tribulations from a shared hosting provider that only gave us 25MB of web space to the present time. We even have another article talking about how to start a blog right. This article mostly discusses the time frame and research it took to get where we are today.

Read on if you wish to know more.

Video web crawlers and the Google Monopoly over them.

February 22, 2023January 24, 2021 by S-Config

Happy 2021 – Web crawling only gives you YouTube first, last, and always.

Back in 2016, we made an article about asking YouTube “Where is the fair use?” which was a slogan that the Nostalgia Critic was behind as parodies and criticism of film and literature is a form of free speech. Despite all of the Drama-Lama action that his agent “Channel Awesome” happened which is beyond the scope of this article. The statement was a valid question to ask YouTube. To the point where we even got hit with a copyright strike over the song “William Tell” which is a classical music song that falls under the category of public domain.

Read on if you want to know more.

State of the blog 2019

August 14, 2021January 29, 2020 by S-Config

2020 state of the blog in baggage - The title.

The year is 2020. At this stage we should be raging on a concrete jungle with hover-bikes and laser swords. What was got is a rather underwhelming dystopia. But that doesn’t mean we’re stopping anytime soon. Font Change. We decided to get rid of the bitstream vera mono font and replace it with a … Read more

Ouya support in the year 2020.

August 21, 2021January 12, 2020 by S-Config

Support for Ouya android console that could in 2020.

We suppose if there is one truly cyberpunk thing about living in 2020 is the fascination of reviving decommissioned hardware from dead companies and continue to use it for our own personal entertainment. Technology that is no longer hindered by any company what-so-ever. Where does the Ouya fit into all of this? Well!

Wait, there’s more than Google?

It’s time to shed some light and clarification on some of the things we do here.

Happy 2021 – Web crawling only gives you YouTube first, last, and always.

I don’t feel dirty saying it’s centralized because-

Support for Ouya android console that could in 2020.