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Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox

Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox

By Tom on February 19, 2010

Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that Yahoo search [...]

Posted in Tech Journal | Tagged Google, Microsoft, Open-source, shameless-self-promotion, Ubuntu | 1 Response

Pointless advert

Pointless advert

By Tom on January 26, 2010

If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me):

Google is trying to teach me to suck eggs. They obviously know what Operating system I’m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect what [...]

Posted in Journal | Tagged Annoying, Google, Linux | 2 Responses

Interface (Neal Stephenson)

By Tom on May 20, 2008

Sci-Fi, 7/10 – Apr/May 2008

I didn’t know anything about US politics until I read this book. I’m not much interested in politics let alone US politics but the book did an excellent job of hiding any potential boringness in character descriptions, a fast plot and a single super interesting sci-fi concept which any cyberpunk fan [...]

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Cyberpunk, Google | Leave a response

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