Yes, We can Change

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web becoming a publicly available service on the internet. While many people use the terms web and internet interchangeably, they are in fact different services. On August 6 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir), posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The message read: "The WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere." Previously the web was used to allow physicists at the CERN physics laboratory to share data, news and documentation, but Berners-Lee's post released the technology to the general public. By making the web openly available and royalty free, it quickly advanced to a globally used service, no longer the secret of the technologically minded. In the 20 years that followed, the web has become a daily part of modern life. The late 1990s and 2000s saw the boom and subsequent bust of dot-com businesses. Sites such as Amazon and...

This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains." Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins - Miami ." Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot norwalk , ct," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook: robert jones las vegas , NV") as well as businesses. Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing ...

Job search engine A job search engine is a website that facilitates job hunting. These sites are more commonly known as job boards[1] and range from large scale generalist boards to niche job boards for categories such as engineering, legal, insurance, social work, teaching and seasonal jobs. Users can typically deposit their résumés and submit them to potential employers, while employers can post job ads and search for potential employees. The category job search engines below is a list of specific search engines with details about them. Trends A more recent trend in job search engines is the emergence of vertical search or metasearch engines, which allows job-seekers to search across multiple websites. Some of these new search engines primarily index traditional job boards. These sites aim to provide a "one-stop shop" for job-seekers who don't need to search the underlying job boards. Tensions have recently developed between the job boards and several scraper sites, wit...

A new search engine, called ImHalal.com , aims to protect the sensibilities of Muslims by filtering out content that is "haram" or forbidden by the faith. The site will warn people if they are searching for a query that might return explicit content, site-founder Reza Sardeha said in an email on Friday. Besides developing the search technology, Sardeha and others in his team, based in the Netherlands, have also introduced a two layer filter. When users get a haram rating of level one or two out of three, they are advised to choose another keyword to search, but they can still continue their search if they believe the results fetched will be clean, Sardeha said. Words like porn and rape are considered to be at a rating of three, and are blocked, he added. Terms like beer and pork, however, get a haram rating of one because users cannot consume them off the Internet. The site was launched earlier this month, and has received more than 400,000 unique visitors so f...