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<title><![CDATA[Internet Privacy and Data Mining]]></title>
<link>http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/internet-privacy-and-data-mining/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamblichus</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ye Olde World data mining at Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Lengua Madrid... A long long time ]]></description>
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<p>A long long time ago in a land called 2006, AOL proudly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal">released</a> three months&#8217; worth of aggregated search data from 650,000 of its users. Oops. It was a PR coup extraordinaire and a real eye-opener for those of us who thought our online data was safe.</p>
<p>You can still search it now, for academic interest or casual data-voyeurism&#8230; for example, bung an innocuous word into <a href="http://www.aolstalker.com">AOLStalker</a>, e.g. &#8220;trees&#8221; and pick a user:</p>
<p>Agent #41194 searched AOL for &#8220;flowering trees&#8221;. How nice. But you can also see they searched for &#8220;texas prison inmates&#8221;, &#8220;ballreich potato chips&#8221;, &#8220;slutinc&#8221; amid just a few other mangled, misspelt search requests.</p>
<p>With just four searches I think I can build a profile: user #41194 is a bored, hungry, horny worker in an Arboretum with a criminal record and green thumbs. (I jest, but what was many a truth done in?)</p>
<p>Other users were far more freaky: user 927 was looking for so much twisted crap (as well as orchids) that I&#8217;m loath to reproduce it on my tasteful blog; just read The Consumerist&#8217;s darkly hilarious post on it <a href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/privacy/aol-user-927-illuminated-192502.php">here</a> and weep.</p>
<p>But knoweth this, fair reader: every time you use a regular search engine, your search data are recorded. Your search terms, the time of your visit, the links you choose, your IP address and your User ID cookies all get stored in a database.</p>
<p>This is not really a joking matter for those concerned about privacy. Thankfully, a slew of search engines have sprung up dedicated to  preserving anonymity or privacy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/?&#38;cat=web&#38;query=">Ixquick</a> doesn&#8217;t record its users IP addresses and deletes all user data within 48 hours. It was awarded the first <a href="https://www.european-privacy-seal.eu/">European Privacy Seal</a> in July 2008.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm">Scroogle</a> disguises the Internet address of users who want to run Google searches anonymously, as well as giving users the option of having all communication between their computer and the search page be SSL encrypted.</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t feed the beast that is the data-mining industry, people, just Scroogle it!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ixquick]]></title>
<link>http://tag4tag.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/ixquick/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tag4tag.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/ixquick/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Eine nette kleine Metasuchmaschine, die keine IPs speichert. Klickst Du hier: Ixquick. Mehr Worte wi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Eine nette kleine Metasuchmaschine, die keine IPs speichert. Klickst Du hier: <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/">Ixquick</a>.</p>
<p>Mehr Worte will ich hierüber nicht verlieren. Jeder soll sich selber ein Bild davon machen, und sich mal etwas einlesen was ixquick macht, wieso, und überhaupt.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ixquick: Protects Your Privacy When You Search the Net]]></title>
<link>http://johndierckx.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/ixquick-protects-your-privacy-when-you-search-the-net/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johndierckx</dc:creator>
<guid>http://johndierckx.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/ixquick-protects-your-privacy-when-you-search-the-net/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Want privacy with regards to your internet searches? Consider checking out Ixquick, claiming to be t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Want privacy with regards to your internet searches? Consider checking out <a href="http://www.ixquick.com" target="_blank">Ixquick</a>, claiming to be the only metasearch engine that does not store your personal data.  That&#8217;s not all. It claims to be the worlds most powerful metasearch engine and search results will be more comprehensive and accurate than other search engines.</p>
<p><img style="max-width:800px;" src="http://johndierckx.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/aviary-ixquick-com-picture-1.png?w=400&#038;h=218" alt="" width="400" height="218" /></p>
<p>As a metasearch engine it uses the results of several other search engines:</p>
<p><img style="max-width:800px;" src="http://johndierckx.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/aviary-us2-ixquick-com-picture-1.png?w=455&#038;h=75" alt="" width="455" height="75" /></p>
<p>While I am happy with the meta search capabilities, I have at times been  less impressed with the fact that I did not see an immediate option to go over all search hits for instance by search engine. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Ixquick makes a relevant selection for you</span>. At the same time, when you are in a hurry it can be very refreshing to not have to go through all the clutter.  There are options of web, phone, video and picture searches and it allows for boolean search.</p>
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<td>A Ixquick result is awarded one star (<img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" />) for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star (<img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /><img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /><img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /><img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /><img src="http://us.ixquick.com/graphics/star.gif" alt="" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" />) result means that five search engines agreed on the result.</td>
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<td>This is significant because search engines choose results in different ways, and each approach works well in some cases and poorly in others. A result with many stars was chosen for many different reasons, and is a consensus choice of many search engines.</td>
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<td>Also, while irrelevant Web pages can be &#8220;optimized&#8221; to fool a single search engine&#8217;s algorithm, it is much harder for a page to fool all the search engines.</td>
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<p><strong>Privacy</strong><br />
Ixquick does not store IP adresses and uses anonymous user information to improve quality. 2 cookies are stored that save your search &#8220;preferences&#8221;, which you can change, and a &#8220;exclude repetitive results cookie. The preferences cookie experies after 90 days. More about how Ixquick protects your privacy can be found on the site <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html" target="_blank">here &#62;&#62;&#62;</a> and <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy_qa.html" target="_blank">here &#62;&#62;&#62;</a> as well as in the <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>.</p>
<p>Why not try it out yourself?</p>
<p>&#60;form target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; method=&#8221;POST&#8221; accept-charset=&#8221;UTF-8&#8243; action=&#8221;http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl&#8221; name=&#8221;searchsys&#8221; id=&#8221;searchsys&#8221; onsubmit=&#8221;javascript:document.searchsys.query.value=document.searchsys.keyword.value;;for(i=0;i</p>
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If you liked what you saw, you can opt to download the Ixquick toolbar for <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/download_ixquick_toolbar.html" target="_blank">IE and Firefox</a>. There is a <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/download_ixquick_toolbar.html" target="_blank">deskbar available</a> for Windows computers. As a search engine or even metasearch engine this is not my favorite in terms of results but it is very convenient for those times you may want or need to protect your privacy when searching. I have been using this tool for a few years now have found it at times very helpful and convenient.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ich google'te. Ich bing'te. Ich ask'te.]]></title>
<link>http://saugt.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/google-bing-ask/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hybraries</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Nach geschätzten 200 Jahren schreib ich auch mal wieder was. Oh Wunder, und es wird direkt mal sau l]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Nach geschätzten 200 Jahren schreib ich auch mal wieder was. Oh Wunder, und es wird direkt mal sau langweilig. Also erstmal eine Anweisung: An alle stumpfen Leute, Internetuntermenschen, Leute die keine Ahnung haben, Leute die denken, dass sie Ahnung haben aber das Denken schon nicht beherrschen, an alle Zensursulas und Schäubles dieser Welt, an alle Leute die es einen Scheiß interessiert was mit den eigenen Daten passiert, die in allen K&#8230;VZs dieser Welt angemeldet sind und dort auch die intimsten Details kundtun: <strong>Verschwindet.</strong> (Das geht normalerweise ganz schnell über Alt+pos1). So&#8230;die 5% die jetzt noch übrig geblieben sind dürfen gerne weiterlesen. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Vor gut 4 Tagen las ich auf heise von einer neuen Aktion gegen Google/Monokultur. Okay, der Artikel ist eigentlich gar nicht einer Erwähnung wert, aber er hat immerhin zu einem <a title="Blog" href="http://einewocheohne.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a> verwiesen, wo das eigentliche <a title="Vorhaben" href="http://einewocheohne.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/eine-woche-ohne-google-ein-aufruf-fur-mehr-vielfalt/trackback/" target="_blank">Vorhaben</a> erklärt wurde.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Es geht nicht um einen Google-Boykott, sondern um die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit einem Quasi-Monopol im Internet und dessen Bedeutung für die Medien- und Meinungsfreiheit.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Google ist toll, ohne Frage &#8211; aber irgendwo macht es auch äußerst abhängig. Vorallem an die Aufbereitung der Ergebnisse und die Einfachheit der Seite gewöhnt man sich, und da der Mensch ein Gewohnheitstier ist fällt man immer wieder auf Google zurück.</p>
<p>Wie dem auch sei: Ich dachte mir, machst du mal &#8220;mit&#8221;. Öffnete meine Privoxy Konfiguration und blockierte einfach mal pauschal *.google.*. Kann ja nicht schaden, dachte ich mir. Direkt noch ein paar andere Suchmaschinen rausgesucht wie z.B. <a href="https://www.ixquick.com">ixquick</a>, <a href="http://www.metager2.de">metager²</a>, <a href="http://www.clusty.com">clusty</a> was die Metasuchmaschinen, also Suchmaschinen die mehrere andere Suchmaschinen befragen und die Ergebnisse nochmal neu bewerten/sortieren, angeht, oder <a href="http://www.ask.de">Ask</a> bzw. <a href="http://www.exalead.com/search">Exalead</a> was allgemeine Suchmaschinen angeht.</p>
<p>Fangen wir bei den Suchmaschinen mal hinten an: Wenn ich etwas im Internet suche, dann möchte ich normalerweise deutsche oder englische Seiten haben, denn diese Sprachen beherrsche ich. Zu diesen Zweck kann man die gesuchten Sprachen normalerweise einstellen. Das kann man auch bei Exalead tun &#8211; also schnell &#8220;Deutsch&#8221; eingestellt. Wenn ich nun aber nach etwas suche, dann ist es auch so, dass ich verdammt nochmal deutsche Seiten bekommen will, und mir Exalead nicht folgendes sagt:</p>
<blockquote><p>56% English, 39% French, 3% German</p></blockquote>
<p>Wieviel französisch schlussendlich dabei herauskommt ist immer eine Suchphrase an, aber so bald man speziell wird, wird man von französischen Seiten nur so erschlagen. Danke, ich beherrsche diese Sprache nicht.</p>
<p>Ask dagegen liefert zwar super Ergebnisse, aber man wird erstmal von Werbung, so genannten gesponsorten Ergebnissen, erschlagen. Also erstmal eine halbe Seite runterscrollen. Arg. Abhilfe erreicht man durch das wechseln auf die amerikanische Seite, die die selben Ergebnisse ausspuckt, aber wesentlich ansprechender aussieht. Ähnlich ist es übrigens bei Bing. In der deutschen Version kann man diesen <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">beschissenen, unsinnigen, fehlerhaften</span> Jugendschutzfilter ausschalten und die Suche auch noch richtig konfigurieren. Bravo.</p>
<p>Die Metasuchmaschinen gefallen mir aber persönlich ehrlich gesagt am besten. Anständige Ergebnisse gut bewertet. Vorallem ixquick liefert wirklich anständige Ergebnisse und ist recht schnell (und hat sogar eine Verbindungsverschlüsselung <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  ). Metager² liefert auch gute Ergebnisse, und filtert mir direkt Müll und Spam und tote Seiten raus. Clusty kann sehr komfortabel sein, da man Suchen durch sogenannte Cluster (Haufen/Traube) eingrenzen kann.</p>
<p>Man kann also sehr wohl ohne Google auskommen. Doch warum sollte man fragen sich einige. Ergebnisse toll, Seite toll, Seite schnell, und man ist ja sowieso immer eingeloggt? <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Früher hat man die Stasi gebraucht, heute braucht man Google.</p>
<p>Folgendes Szenario: Rüdiger hat einen Google Login, benutzt Google Mail, Google Kalendar und natürlich Google selber. Rüdiger ist auch immer eingeloggt. Was weiß Google jetzt über Rüdiger?</p>
<p>a) Was er  kauft</p>
<p>b) Wann er wie lange online ist</p>
<p>c) Was er geschäftlich und in seiner Freizeit macht</p>
<p>d) Was ihn interessiert</p>
<p>Nehmen wir noch Zusatzdienste hinzu: Google Analytics und YouTube.</p>
<p>e) Welche Seiten Rüdiger wie lange und oft besucht</p>
<p>f) Welche Videos er mag</p>
<p>e) die ungefähre politische Richtung</p>
<p>Nehmen wir noch Google Talk hinzu.</p>
<p>g) Mit wem er worüber redet</p>
<p>e) Details über die Gesprächspartner</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Jetzt stellen wir uns, dass Google das von jedem in Rüdigers Freundeskreis weiß, stellen wir uns weiter vor, dass diese Daten über Jahre hinweg gesammelt werden. Ein gigantischer Datenpool. Der feuchte Traum eines jeden Überwachungsorgan &#8211; und das Beste: Die Menschen machen es freiwillig. Was man mit den Daten nun alles machen könnte&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Nachtrag:</strong></p>
<p>Auch Metasuchmaschinen sind nicht das Allheilmittel, denn auch diese produzieren Irrelevanz. Relevanz ist nunmal ein schmaler Grad den es zu erreichen geht. Wenn ich z.B. nach &#8220;Fachinformatiker Systemintegration&#8221; Suche, dann will <strong>ich</strong> keine Stellenangebote oder das &#8220;IT-Handbuch für Fachinformatiker&#8221;, sondern Informationen über den Job. Metager² und ixquick spucken für mich da erstmal nur Müll aus. Clusty liefert noch die treffensten Ergebnisse, aber Ask.com und Bing liefern in dem Fall wirklich das, was ich Suche.</p>
<p>Andererseits ist &#8220;Fachinformatiker Systemintegration&#8221; auch sehr pauschal. Suchen wir mal nach &#8220;Fachinformatiker Systemintegration Berufsinformationen&#8221;:</p>
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<li>Metager²: <strong>Es wurden leider keine Suchergebnisse gefunden.</strong></li>
<li>Ixquick: 1 Ergebniss, der Rest Müll</li>
<li>Bing: Informationen von der Arbeitsagentur, dem IHK. Juhu.</li>
<li>Ask.com: Jobinformationen! JAWOHL!</li>
<li>Clusty: Ganz annehmbare Informationen über den Beruf, einige Privatseiten. Einschränkbar durch Cluster. Passt.</li>
<li>Exalead: Wow, keine Französischen Seiten, aber nicht so ganz was ich Suche. Ich suche immernoch keine Lehrstelle, sondern nur Informationen</li>
<li>Google: Ähnliche Ergebnisse wie Bing oder Ask</li>
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<p>Naja, jeder wie er mag.</p>
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<link>http://futureye.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/google-chrome-to-get-bookmark-sync/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>futureye</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Google Apparently, within the next two weeks Google is planning to release a new version of Google C]]></description>
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<p>Apparently, within the next two weeks Google is planning to release a new version of <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google Chrome</a> that will include the ability to sync bookmarks between different computers.</p>
<p>“The synchronisation will be managed through a Google account”, said software engineer on the Chrome team, Tim Steele in a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/bdacc1bdf3c5cb6a">mailing list posting</a> on Friday.</p>
<p>Sync or synchronisation is an act of causing software to operate simultaneously. So Google wants to synchronise Chrome with bookmarking software, much like our favourite bookmarking site <a href="http://http://delicious.com/">del.icio.us.com</a></p>
<p>Google sees this venture as far more than just updating a list of links. In fact, it&#8217;ll be using the <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk (gtalk) infrastructure </a>to handle the service.</p>
<p>Synchronizing will help one instance of Chrome to behave more like another, for example being able to retrieve more easily the address of a website that a user already visited on another computer</p>
<p>However Peter Kasting, another Chrome programmer, would&#8217;ve liked Chrome to have &#8220;history/visited link/omnibox syncing than bookmarks,&#8221; he <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/msg/781b85ef5a85c6e8">said in a posting</a>. Now if they do sync passwords and browser history, it’ll be quite a risk.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-110" title="chrome_logo" src="http://futureye.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/chrome_logo_may09.jpg" alt="chrome_logo" width="150" height="145" /></p>
<p><strong>Privacy?</strong></p>
<p>Now I have not used Google Chrome yet (so this not making a promo for it because they&#8217;re not paying me) but the issues of privacy are quite pertinent.</p>
<p>There are millions of users that are already storing information via <a href="http://www.google.com/history">search history</a> on Google&#8217;s servers. With Chrome&#8217;s synchronization feature, however, you would also store a complete record of all of your comings and going on other parts of the Internet on Google&#8217;s servers.</p>
<p>Not so long again I discovered that there are search engines, like Dutch based search engine <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/power_search.html">ixquick,</a> that do not store data.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re thinking this is not new. Indeed it isn&#8217;t, in fact there are companies that do the same as Google Chrome, such as the likes of <a href="http://http://www.xmarks.com/">Xmarks</a>, <a href="http://http://www.bookmarksync.com/index.php">Bookmarksync</a>, <a href="http://http://www.netvouz.com/">Netvous</a> etc. However, what is important to think about is how this will affect us in future and what is means for future innovations.</p>
<p><strong>Core message</strong></p>
<p>This week&#8217;s post on Chrome raises some interesting pointers. In a networked personal and business computing environment, users want to be able to enjoy a similar experience regardless of the computer or device being used.</p>
<p>Google Chrome browser is Google&#8217;s first step in the direction of creating an interface not just for the web and computing.</p>
<p>The idea is that if more users will access their data directly from the Internet as opposed to a computer?s hard drive, then Google will provide both the interface (Chrome) and Operating System (Chrome OS) that will run on many devices.</p>
<p>In doing so, Google is going head to head with Microsoft and Apple ? not just in the browser market but the OS market too.</p>
<p><strong>The beauty of Google Chrome</strong></p>
<p>It is a unique system that provides real-time automatic bookmark synchronization between all your different browsers, computers, and operating systems.</p>
<p>Add a bookmark to <a href="http://http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx">Internet Explorer </a>at work, and it will automatically be sent to your <a href="http://http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html">Firefox</a> browser at home and your <a href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)">Safari</a> browser on your Mac!</p>
<p>Moreover I read that it supports Unicode, so it works for bookmarks in all languages and it encrypts your bookmarks so you can securely access them anywhere in the world on any PC or via your PDA, mobile devices, RSS feeds, and publish your favorites using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">JavaScript</a>.</p>
<p>This can change the way we deal with computers and our work. Personally, I think it could be very useful to students since we move around doing research papers, essays etc.</p>
<p>But then one could ask who needs another hyper-responsive utility just for synchronizing bookmarks or browser history lists when we&#8217;ve go delicious.com?</p>
<p>Is Google Chrome pushing a hidden agenda? What I do know is that I&#8217;ll be watching Google like a hawk and see when it officially becomes of their plans. Futureye signing out.</p>
<p>Post updated and corrected 30 September 2009</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Protect Your Privacy]]></title>
<link>http://disinter.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/protect-your-privacy/</link>
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<dc:creator>disinter</dc:creator>
<guid>http://disinter.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/protect-your-privacy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The only search engine that does not record your IP address: Startpage More info here.]]></description>
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<p>More info <a href="http://disinter.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/search-engines-that-dont-spy-on-you/">here</a>.</p>
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<link>http://climenole.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/firefox-faites-vos-recherches-comme-un-pro/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Claude LaFrenière</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;une des fonctions les plus utilisée d&#8217;un navigateur est sans doute la recherche. Cet a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> L&#8217;une des fonctions les plus utilisée d&#8217;un navigateur est sans doute la recherche. Cet article porte sur cette fonction et quelques méthodes pour la rendre plus efficace et plus simple. Firefox propose Google comme moteur de recherche par défaut. C&#8217;est ce moteur qui est lancé lorsque la recherche se fait via la barre d&#8217;adresse ainsi que nous l&#8217;avions déjà vu antérieurement: <strong><a href="http://climenole.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/firefox-utilisez-la-barre-dadresse-comme-un-pro/" target="_blank">Utilisez la barre d&#8217;adresse comme un Pro</a></strong>.</p>
<p>La première chose à savoir est que la barre d’adresse peut aussi servir de barre de recherche. Le <strong>moteur de recherche par défaut</strong> est alors lancé. Les paramètres de ce moteur de recherche par défaut (Google) sont accessibles et modifiables via la barre d’adresse avec</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img title="About config" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/about-config.png?w=287&#038;h=35#38;h=35" alt="About config" width="287" height="35" /></p>
<p><img title="Paramètres Browser.search" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/parametres-browser-search.png?w=665&#038;h=50#38;h=50" alt="Paramètres Browser.search" width="665" height="50" /></p>
<p>Et comme vous l&#8217;avez déjà constaté, Firefox offre en plus quelques autres moteurs de recherche dans la barre de recherche à droite de la barre d&#8217;adresse. Je ne vous apprend sans doute pas non plus que vous pouvez ajouter ou supprimer des moteurs avec les fonctions de base de la barre de recherche.</p>
<p>Vous savez aussi que le principal moteur de recherche, Google, propose une barre d&#8217;outil pour Firefox et la question est de savoir si cela vaut la peine de l&#8217;utiliser, d&#8217;en utiliser une autre ou de ne pas en avoir&#8230;</p>
<p>Cela dépend d&#8217;un choix personnel mais puisque je ne fais que des suggestions que vous êtes libres d&#8217;accepter ou pas permettez-moi de sous proposer de l&#8217;ajouter à vos outils de navigation pour faciliter vos recherches.</p>
<p>Voir à ce propos: <strong><a href="http://climenole.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/nouvelle-barre-doutils-google-version-5/" target="_blank">La nouvelle barre d&#8217;outil Google version 5</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>1- Le choix du bon outil et une façon de le rendre meilleur</strong></p>
<p>Même si nous avons choisis d&#8217;utiliser une barre d&#8217;outil et que notre choix s&#8217;est porté sur la barre Google rien ne nous empêche d&#8217;améliorer les services Google avec une extension que je vous recommande: Customize Google.</p>
<p>La capture d&#8217;écran des options vous donne une aperçu de ses possibilités dont les plus remarquables pour l&#8217;amélioration de la recherche sont: des liens vers d&#8217;autres moteurs de recherche, des filtres de recherche, l&#8217;accès à l&#8217;historique des pages avec WayBackMachine, etc.  Je vous laisse découvrir les autres&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4828" title="Customize Google" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/customizegoogle.jpg" alt="Customize Google" width="545" height="503" /></p>
<p>Pour installer la barre d&#8217;outils:  <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT5/intl/fr/" target="_blank">Barre d&#8217;outils Google v. 5</a></strong> <span class="linkification-ext"> </span></p>
<p>Pour améliorer l&#8217;utilisation de Google: <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/743" target="_blank">Customize Google</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>2- Combinez un moteur de recherche généraliste avec des moteurs spécialisés</strong></p>
<p>Si la recherche avec Google est en général satisfaisante il est possible d&#8217;utiliser des moteurs de recherches <em>alternatifs</em>, <em>sécurisés</em> ou des <em>méta-moteurs</em> de recherche. L&#8217;idée est de combiner vos recherches avec un moteur généraliste et la recherche avec des moteurs spécialisés pour obtenir des résultats plus pertinents et parfois de faire des découvertes&#8230; Le site <strong><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html" target="_blank">Mycroft</a></strong> propose un ensemble de tels moteurs de recherche. C&#8217;est le premier site à visiter pour trouver ce que vous cherchez.</p>
<p><span class="linkification-ext"> </span></p>
<p>Nous verrons plus loin quelques exemples de tels moteur de recherches mais je vous suggère dès maintenant d&#8217;<strong><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=mycroft+project" target="_blank">installer le moteur Mycroft</a></strong> lui-même dans votre choix de moteurs de recherche et d&#8217;installer aussi l&#8217;extension <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/4565" target="_blank">Organize Search Engine</a></strong> dont les avantages ne tarderont pas à vous apparaître dès lors que vous aurez à gérer plusieurs <em>«MdR»</em> ce que nous allons voir un peu plus loin&#8230;</p>
<p>Mais d&#8217;abord revenons à Google et voyons ce que nous pouvons faire pour exploiter ses possibilités avant de nous tourner vers d&#8217;autres <em>«MdR»</em>.</p>
<p><strong>3- Utilisez à fond les possibilités de Google</strong></p>
<p>Pour tirer le maximum de Google il ne faut pas hésiter à se mettre les mains dans le &#8220;cambouis&#8221; et utiliser certaines fonctions en &#8220;ligne de commande&#8221; sachant que:</p>
<ul>
<li>- tous les mots comptent</li>
<li>- la casse des caractère n&#8217;est pas prise en compte</li>
<li>- les caractères accentués non plus</li>
<li>- ni la ponctuation</li>
<li>- et que les mots de liaisons sont inutiles</li>
</ul>
<p>En somme: il faut faire simple. Si la lecture de cet article vous donnes des céphalées il ne faut pas chercher «Cet article de Climenole me donne un mal de tête que faire pour me soulager?» mais plutôt: «mal tete soulager» (J&#8217;espère que ce n&#8217;est pas le cas&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
<p>Quelques fonctions de la &#8220;commande de recherche&#8221;:</p>
<ul>
<li>- pour trouver un terme ou une phrase exacte utilisez les <strong>&#8220;</strong>guillemets<strong>&#8220;</strong></li>
<li>- pour exclure un terme de la recherche utilisez le tiret<strong> &#8211; </strong>tel que<em> <strong>-</strong>exclure</em></li>
<li>- pour rechercher un terme en excluant ses synonymes placer un signe <strong>+</strong> avant le mot et sans espace tel que<em> <strong>+</strong>exact</em></li>
<li>-<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> par défaut</span> les mots successifs sont traités comme étant reliés par l&#8217;<strong><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/wiki/Fonction_ET" target="_blank">opérateur logique ET</a></strong>. Pour chercher des alternatifs il faut utiliser l&#8217;<strong><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/wiki/Fonction_OU" target="_blank">opérateur ou inclusif</a></strong> avec le mot <strong>OR</strong> en majuscule tel que<em> climenole OR flapper</em> (Pour chercher le mot &#8216;or&#8217; ce serait plutôt: &#8220;OR&#8221; ou &#8220;or&#8221;&#8230;)</li>
</ul>
<p><em><strong>a) Fonctions de recherches avancées de Google:</strong></em></p>
<p>Vous avez aussi la possibilité de cibler vos recherches avec des opérateurs de fonctions pour obtenir</p>
<ul>
<li>- un type de fichier précis dans vos résultats avec <strong>filetype:type_de_fichier </strong>tel que <em>tcp-ip filetype:pdf</em></li>
<li>- la définition d&#8217;un terme avec <strong>define:terme</strong> tel que <em>define:linux</em></li>
<li>- limiter la recherche à un site en particulier avec<strong> site:site_ou_domaine.com</strong> tel que <em>site:wordpress.com ou linux site:wordpress.com<br />
</em></li>
<li>- les pages liées à un site particulier <strong>link:site.com</strong> tel que <em>link:climenole.wordpress.com</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Ces fonctions sont aussi accessibles via le menu contextuel de Firefox avec l&#8217;extension <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/2144" target="_blank">Advanced Dork</a></strong> <span class="linkification-ext"> </span></p>
<p><em>Sites de référence:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=134479" target="_blank">Google Basic Search Help</a></strong> site officiel</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861" target="_blank">More Search Help</a></strong> site officiel</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html" target="_blank">Google Guide Advanced operators</a></strong> <strong><span style="color:#993300;">Très complet! </span></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.googleguide.com/file_type.html" target="_blank">Google Guide File Types</a></strong> <strong><span style="color:#993300;">Très complet!</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><em><strong>b) utilisez les SmartBookmarks</strong></em></p>
<p>Firefox permet l&#8217;utilisation de <em>Mot-clé</em> et rien de plus simple alors que de les utiliser pour accéder à des fonctions de recherches particulière avec la fonction de recherche de la barre d&#8217;adresse de Firefox. Ce sont les <em>«Smartbookmarks»</em>. L&#8217;idée est d&#8217;associer un mot clé avec une ligne de commande de recherche.</p>
<p><strong>Par exemple:</strong> <a class="linkification-ext" title="Linkification: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s" href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s</a> associé au mot-clé <strong>gs</strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4964" title="SmartBookmarks: organiser" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/smartbookmarks1.jpg" alt="SmartBookmarks: organiser" width="700" height="476" /><br />
</strong></p>
<p>Il suffit alors d&#8217;entre dans la barre d&#8217;adresse le mot-clé suivi d&#8217;au moins un espace et du ou des termes de recherche. Comme ceci:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4966" title="GSC" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gsc.jpg" alt="GSC" width="423" height="35" /></p>
<p>Ce qui conduit à la recherche spécifiée par le smartbookmark et le terme de recherche:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4868" title="Le smartbookmark: résultat" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/sbm-02.jpg" alt="Le smartbookmark: résultat" width="481" height="37" /></p>
<p><em><strong>Notez:</strong></em> pour les utilisateurs d&#8217;<em>OpenDNS</em></p>
<p>Si plusieurs apprécient les fonctionnalité d&#8217;<em>OpenDNS</em> il faut cependant savoir que l&#8217;utilisation de ce service entre en conflit avec l&#8217;utilisation des smartbookmaks. Vous avez deux possibilités:</p>
<ol>
<li>Vous inscrire pour obtenir un compte sur <em>OpenDNS</em> et utiliser<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.opendns.com/solutions/smb/shortcuts/" target="_blank"><strong>leurs</strong> fonctions de raccourcis</a></li>
<li>ou désactiver cette fonction d&#8217;<em>OpenDNS</em> avec l&#8217;extension <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/7993" target="_blank">Feeling Lucky Fixer</a></strong></li>
</ol>
<p><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">Si des fonctions de recherche sont relativement faciles à réaliser en «commande de recherche» il ne faut pas négliger les formulaires de recherche pour vous simplifier les choses encore plus:<br />
</span></span></p>
<p><em><strong>c) Profitez des formulaires recherche avancée</strong></em></p>
<p>La recherche avancée de Google:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.fr/advanced_search" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4875" title="Google: Formulaire de Recherche Avancée" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/googlerechercheavancee.jpg" alt="Google: Formulaire de Recherche Avancée" width="700" height="320" /></a></p>
<p><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">Sans non plus négliger d&#8217;autres services de recherches de Google tels que</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">-<a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#" target="_blank"> Google Insight for Search</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://www.google.com/trends" target="_blank">Google Trend</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://www.google.fr/codesearch?hl=fr" target="_blank">Recherche de Code</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">-<a href="http://www.google.com/profiles?q=" target="_blank"> Recherche de profils</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/" target="_blank">Recherche de Blogs</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/intl-zeitgeist.html" target="_blank">Le ZeitGeist ou l&#8217;Esprit du Temps</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank">Les Images Similaires</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">-<a href="http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank"> News Timeline</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html" target="_blank">Special Search (MS, BSD, Linux, Apple Mac et US Gov.)</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://www.google.com/options/universities.html" target="_blank">Recherche dans les sites universitaires</a><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://scholar.google.ca/schhp?sourceid=sch&#38;subid=US-ET-univmain" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- <a href="http://labs.google.com/inquotes/" target="_blank">In Quotes</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext">- etc.<br />
</span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><em><strong>d) Créez et gérez vos propres moteurs de recherche personnalisés</strong></em></p>
<p><span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext"> </span></span><a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4887" title="Google Recherche Personnalisée" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/googlerecherchepersonnalisee.jpg" alt="Google Recherche Personnalisée" width="393" height="54" /></a><br />
<span class="linkification-ext"><span class="linkification-ext"><br />
</span></span></p>
<p>En déterminant les<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> mot-clés</span> <strong>et</strong> les <span style="text-decoration:underline;">sites</span> sur lesquels la recherche devra se faire. <em><strong>Par exemple:</strong></em></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4890" title="Exemple Recherche Personnalisée 1" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/exemplerecherchepersonnalisee-01.jpg" alt="Exemple Recherche Personnalisée 1" width="700" height="308" /></p>
<p><em><strong>Ce qui donne ceci:</strong></em></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4892" title="Exemple Recherche Personnalisée 2" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/exemplerecherchepersonnalisee-02.jpg" alt="Exemple Recherche Personnalisée 2" width="700" height="303" /></p>
<p><em><strong>La page étant dès lors accessible par un marque-page&#8230;</strong></em></p>
<p>Il est possible aussi d&#8217;intégrer cette recherche personnalisée dans un site Web ou encore de sauvegarder le code généré par Google dans un fichier HTML local avec un éditeur HTML tel que <strong><a href="http://www.frenchmozilla.fr/kompozer/" target="_blank"><em>Kompozer</em></a></strong>. Ce fichier est alors accessible localement par le navigateur et conservé par un marque-page&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Ce qui donne ceci:</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4898" title="Climenole's Search Engine Example" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/climenolesearchengineexample.jpg" alt="Climenole's Search Engine Example" width="700" height="441" /><br />
</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>e) Découvrez SearchWiki</strong></em></p>
<p>La revue de quelques unes des possibilités de recherche avec Google ne serait pas complète sans au moins glisser un mot sur la fonction <em>SearchWiki</em>. Selon le site d&#8217;information de <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&#38;answer=115764" target="_blank">Google SearchWiki</a></strong>:<em><strong><br />
</strong></em></p>
<p><em>« Grâce à SearchWiki, personnalisez les résultats de votre recherche sur le Web Google en les classant, en les supprimant et en les commentant. Vos modifications s&#8217;afficheront lorsque vous effectuerez la même recherche, si vous êtes connecté à votre compte Google, ou jusqu&#8217;à ce que vous décidiez de les supprimer. Vous pouvez également voir comment les autres utilisateurs ont personnalisé leurs pages de résultats de recherche par le biais de leurs commentaires et modifications. »</em></p>
<p>Cette nouvelle fonctionnalité des options de recherche Google vous permet de modifier les résultats de vos recherches en déplaçant l&#8217;ordre d&#8217;apparition des sites trouvés, en supprimant de vos résultats des sites non-pertinents et en ajoutant des notes de recherche publiques et partageables. Cette capture d&#8217;écran commentée vous donne un aperçu des fonctions disponibles:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4905" title="Search Wiki Détail des Fonctions" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/searchwikidetail.jpg" alt="Search Wiki Détail des Fonctions" width="700" height="352" /></p>
<p><em><strong>Notez:</strong></em> Les <span style="text-decoration:underline;">commentaires</span> que vous faites <span style="text-decoration:underline;">sont publics</span> tandis que <span style="text-decoration:underline;">les changements de position et les suppressions sont privées</span> id est seulement pour vous. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Vos notes privées SearchWiki</span> peuvent cependant devenir <span style="text-decoration:underline;">publiques</span> en en faisant des <span style="text-decoration:underline;">notes partagées</span>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4910" title="SearchWiki Commentaire et NotesPartagées" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/searchwikicommentaireetnotespartagees.jpg" alt="SearchWiki Commentaire et NotesPartagées" width="700" height="434" /></p>
<p><em><strong>Notez:</strong></em> Comme il est précisé vous pouvez partager ces notes par courriel ou avec une messagerie instantanée mais il est aussi possible de conserver cette page avec un marque-page et d&#8217;en donner le lien sur un site.</p>
<p><em><strong>Voir aussi:</strong></em> <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html" target="_blank">SearchWiki: make search your own</a></p>
<p><em><strong>4- Utilisez les moteurs de recherche spécialisés</strong></em></p>
<p>Nous avons vu plus haut que le site <strong><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">Mycroft</a></strong> permet de trouver a peu près tous les moteurs de recherches disponibles et J&#8217;ai aussi suggéré <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/4565" target="_blank">Organize Search Engine</a></strong> pour en simplifier la gestion.</p>
<p>Il est temps de voir cela en détail. Tout d&#8217;abord des exemples de moteurs, vous trouverez chez <strong>Mycroft</strong> ceux qui vous conviennent avec le <strong><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html" target="_blank">formulaire de recherche du site</a></strong>. <strong>Par exemple:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Relatifs au navigateur:</strong> Mycroft, Firefox addon, MozillaZine KB, UserScript.org (Greasemonkey)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Relatifs au système d&#8217;exploitation:</strong> <em>- Linux/Ubuntu:</em> Debian Wiki, Launchpad, Ubuntu documentation, etc. <em>- Windows:</em> EventID, MSKB, MSDN, TechNet, etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Sécurisés:</strong> Ixquick ssl, Scroogle ssl, Ssl Wikipedia, Yauba<strong>*</strong> (<span style="text-decoration:underline;">non ssl</span>)&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Alternatifs:</strong> AllTheWeb, Clusty, Ask&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Social Web:</strong> Digg, Reddit, delicious, Twitter, FriendFeed&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Spécialisés:</strong> Wolfram Alpha, Goofram, MAC addresses&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Références:</strong> WordReference, Wikipedia, Europeana, Gallica&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>À partir du moment où vous avez un nombre élevé de MdR je vous suggère d&#8217;utiliser l&#8217;extension <strong>Organize Search Engine</strong>, d&#8217;abord pour <em>classer</em> ces MdR en catégories et parce qu&#8217;il est aussi possible ( <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pour certains de ces moteurs</span> ) de lancer avec une seule recherche l&#8217;ensemble des MdR d&#8217;une catégorie, le résultats s&#8217;affichant dans des onglets pour chaque résultat.</p>
<p>Un exemple de cette recherche <em>&#8220;combinée&#8221;</em> (<span style="text-decoration:underline;">mais non <em>&#8220;agrégée&#8221;</em></span> dans une seule page ) sont les moteurs de <em>&#8220;Social Web&#8221;</em> tels que Digg, Reddit, delicious, FriendFeed et Twitter. Comme ceci: sélectionnez la catégorie, cliquez sur &#8220;Tout ouvrir dans des onglets&#8221;, entrez le terme de recherche dans la barre:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4919" title="Recherche Combinée: Exemple" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/recherchecombineeexemple.jpg" alt="Recherche Combinée: Exemple" width="700" height="303" /></p>
<p>Voici à quoi ça ressemble. Les moteurs principaux sont au-dessus de la liste, les autres dans des dossiers selon leur catégorie et enfin on ouvre le dossier &#8220;&#8216;Social Web&#8221; dans des onglets pour une recherche &#8220;combinée&#8221; :</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4922" title="Exemple: liste et &#34;combinée&#34;" src="http://climenole.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/exemple_ose-liste_et_combinee.png" alt="Exemple: liste et &#34;combinée&#34;" width="296" height="483" /></p>
<p><strong>Vous avez remarqué le moteur de recherche Ixquick? </strong>Je vous le suggère&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Il permet</p>
<ul>
<li>- une méta-recherche (recherche sur plusieurs autres MdR),</li>
<li>- un accès sécurisé SSL,</li>
<li>- protège votre confidentialité,</li>
<li>- permet des recherches avancées</li>
<li>- et les paramètres sont personnalisables:</li>
<li> <strong><a href="https://www.ixquick.com/fra/" target="_blank">IXQUICK</a></strong>.</li>
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<p><em><strong>5- Faites travailler le Web pour vous</strong></em></p>
<p>L&#8217;utilisation des Flux Rss/Atom et d&#8217;agrégateurs tels que Google Reader, Feedly, Liferea ou RssOwl, vous permettent non seulement de récupérer automatiquement les nouveaux billets publiés sur vos blogs préférés (comme <strong><span style="color:#993300;">Propos et Commentaires du Climenole</span></strong> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  ) mais aussi de suivre un sujet en particulier avec la <a href="http://www.google.ca/news/advanced_news_search?pz=1&#38;ned=fr_ca&#38;hl=fr" target="_blank">Recherche Avancées des Actualités Google</a> et les flux de recherche d&#8217;actualités personnalisés sans oublier les <a href="http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=fr" target="_blank">Alertes Google</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Je reviendrai dans un prochain billet sur les Flux Rss/Atom et les agrégateurs&#8230; Justement, puisqu&#8217;on en parle pourquoi ne pas profiter de l&#8217;occasion pour vous abonner à <strong><span style="color:#993300;">Propos et Commentaires du Climenole </span></strong>avec le flux Rss du site, FeedBurner ou encore me suivre sur FriendFeed ou Twitter?</p>
<p><a href="../category/feed/" target="_blank"><img title="Abonnez-vous au fil RSS" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/rss-web-icon.png?w=64&#038;h=64#38;h=64&#38;h=64" alt="Rss-web-icon" width="64" height="64" /></a><a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ProposEtCommentairesDuClimenole" target="_blank"><img title="Abonnez-vous via Feedburner" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/feedburner-icone-web.png?w=64&#038;h=64#38;h=64&#38;h=64" alt="FeedBurner-icône-web" width="64" height="64" /></a><a href="http://friendfeed.com/climenole" target="_blank"><img title="Abonnez-vous à Climenole sur FriendFeed" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/friendfeed-web-icon.png?w=64&#038;h=64#38;h=64&#38;h=64" alt="FriendFeed-web-icon" width="64" height="64" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/climenole" target="_blank"><img title="Suivez Climenole sur Twitter" src="http://climenole.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/twitter-web-icon.png?w=64&#038;h=64#38;h=64&#38;h=64" alt="Twitter-web-icon" width="64" height="64" /></a></p>
<p><em><strong>6) La notion de Serendipité</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Quand on ne trouve pas ce qu&#8217;on cherche mais autre chose OU saisissez l&#8217;occasion!</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Une histoire à connaître:</em> Un conte persan, <span style="color:#993300;"><strong>«Les trois Prince de Serendip»</strong></span> , raconte l&#8217;histoire de ces princes, qui, partis en mission de recherche, <em>ne</em> trouvent <em>que</em> ce qu&#8217;ils <em>ne</em> cherchent <em>pas</em> (mais bien autre chose), ce qui ne les empêche pas de profiter de leurs découvertes fortuites&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Voir à ce propos:</strong></em></p>
<p>Wikipédia: <strong><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_et_aventures_des_trois_princes_de_Serendip" target="_blank">Voyages et Aventures des trois Princes de Serendip</a></strong></p>
<p>Intelligence Créative: <strong><a href="http://www.intelligence-creative.com/354_serendipite_definition.html" target="_blank">La Sérendipité. Quelques définitions, de Walpole à aujourd&#8217;hui.</a></strong></p>
<p>S&#8217;il vous arrive de faire de telles découvertes pourquoi ne pas les conserver en cliquant sur l&#8217;étoile à droite de la barre d&#8217;adresse de Firefox: vous pourrez retrouver le lien dans les Marque-pages Non-classés. Vous pouvez aussi essayer l&#8217;extension Firefox <strong><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/7661" target="_blank">Read it Later</a></strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>Dans de <strong>prochains articles</strong> nous verrons comment conserver, modifier et publier les résultats de vos recherches avec Firefox et les outils de recherches disponibles sous Ubuntu Linux&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em><strong>À bientôt&#8230;</strong></em></span> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<link>http://dikosss.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/linxe-verlinkungen-links/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 16:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dikosss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dikosss.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/linxe-verlinkungen-links/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Der gestrige Abend und der heutige Tag waren vom Tag der Gemeinschaft des GWBB geprägt. Ungefähr 500]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Der gestrige Abend und der heutige Tag waren vom Tag der Gemeinschaft des <a href="http://www.gwbb.de/" target="_blank">GWBB</a> geprägt. Ungefähr 500 Christen aus Berliner und Brandenburger Landeskirchlichen Gemeinschaften, die in der Erlöserkirche in Lichtenberg zusammenkamen, um gemeinsam einen Gottesdienst zu feiern und den Tag mit Seminaren und Gesprächen und Essen zu verbringen.<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strauch" target="_blank">Peter Strauch</a>, der Ex-Präses des Bundes der FeG predigte &#8211; sehr frei, ohne Stichzettel. Leute aus meiner Ex-Gemeinde getroffen. War schön. Der &#8220;Häuptling&#8221; des GWBB, <a href="http://www.ctl-online.de/index.php?file=2_r_18" target="_blank">Friedhelm Geiß</a> und die Sekretärin Anke hatten sich viel Mühe gegeben. Als einer der Helfer der Veranstaltung habe ich eine Packung Tee geschenkt bekommen. Eine symbolische Anerkennung. Sehr nett.</p>
<p>So &#8211; ditt war ditt&#8230;<br />
<strong>Jetze meine Verlinkungen:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jfrs.de/storch/blog/wordpress/2009/05/10/es-gibt-ein-zu-spat/" target="_blank">- Es gibt ein zu spät</a> &#8211; von Storch. Ja, Gott ist ein Gott der neuen Chance. Aber manchmal kann eine Chance auch vorbei sein.</p>
<p><a href="http://gjmatthia.blogspot.com/2009/05/abseits.html" target="_blank">- Abseits?</a> &#8211; Die erste &#8220;<a href="http://tafel.4haso.de/?p=1773" target="_blank">Anfixierung</a>&#8221; eines Hertha-Neulings (Günter). Ich war im Schulpraktikum im Rahmen der Berliner Polizei bei einem Hertha-Spiel. Ich bin clean geblieben und verhalte mich zu Hertha mehr wie ein &#8220;Schönwetter-Motorrad-Fahrer&#8221;.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://gottistmituns.blogspot.com/2009/05/ich-liebe-doch-die-kirche-sollte-ich.html" target="_blank">Gemeinde neben den üblichen Strukturen bauen</a> &#8211; das sind Gedanken, die Martin bewegen. Ich denke: Weiter so!</p>
<p><a href="http://hrichert.de/?p=1190" target="_blank">- David Wilkersons Buch zur Finanzkrise</a> (via Helm)- sozusagen &#8220;vor&#8221; der Weltwirtschaftskrise geschrieben. Ja, <a href="http://dikosss.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/panik/" target="_blank">seine letzte Prophetie</a> wird strittig beurteilt:  Zu wenig Christus (gar kein Christus?), eine zu praktische Aufforderung (&#8220;Schafft euch einen 30-Tages-Vorrat an!&#8221;), zu düster, zu dehnbar&#8230; meine Meinung: Wir werden sehen&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://juliehamburg.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/google-vorsicht/" target="_blank">- Die Gefährlichkeit von Google wird hier</a> erwähnt. Als Blogger sehe ich das ambivalent, schließlich gebe ich bewusst ständig Informationen über mich preis. Sollte ich mich da über Google beschweren? Natürlich schreckt die Möglichkeit des Missbrauchs. Auf jeden Fall wird <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/" target="_blank">Ixquick</a> empfohlen, eine Suchmaschine, die wohl keine Daten der Nutzer speichere.</p>
<p><a href="http://netzpolitik.org/2009/die-von-guttenberg-schablone/" target="_blank">- Die zu Guttenberg-Schablone</a> kann man sich runterladen. Er rückt die <a href="http://netzpolitik.org/2009/online-petition-in-der-tagesschau/" target="_blank">Petitionsunterzeichner</a> in die Nähe zu Förderern von Pädophilen. Gibt es eigentlich auch schon eine <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/internet-law/djpq/~3/Ld37N76NyXU/die-uneinsichtigkeit-der-ursula-von-der.html" target="_blank">Von der Leyen-Schablone</a>?</p>
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<link>http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/babes-spychips-ixquick-and-morons/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mantiqaltayr</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/babes-spychips-ixquick-and-morons/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[1. Katherine Albrecht is a babe.  But I digress. She is also one of the leading privacy advocates in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>1. <a title="KMA" href="http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/" target="_blank">Katherine Albrecht</a> is a babe.  But I digress. She is also one of the leading privacy advocates in the United States and she is waging a campaign against Google, that cute HUGE outfit that keeps all of your queries and associates them with your IP address forever. That sweet little search engine company that in 2006 came up with the cool idea to have your computer&#8217;s built-in microphone be used to listen to the ambient sounds in your room and then give you advertisements based on what TV show you are watching. Yeah, that company.  This is also the company that has come up with <a title="GL" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html" target="_blank">Google Latitude</a> so your phone can be used by your &#8220;friends&#8221; to track your every movement. She notes that <a title="PI" href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-563567" target="_blank">Privacy International</a> says that the software on your phone can be turned on by someone other than you. Gee. How sweet.  Google also wants to use your medical searches to <a title="Flu You" href="http://privacy.org/archives/002582.html" target="_blank">predict flu outbreaks</a>.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s a bird to do? Well, Ms. Albrecht (did I mention that she is a babe?) recommends that you can at least stop using the Google search engine so that Google can&#8217;t log any more of your search data. She also recommends the search engine by a company named Ixquick which, according to her and to its website, does not ever record any IP addresses and deletes queries with 48 hours.  We&#8217;ve been using it exclusively at Mantiq al-Tayr for the past week and find that <a title="Ixquick" href="http://www.ixquick.com/eng/?&#38;cat=web&#38;query" target="_blank">Ixquick</a> is a great search engine. For example, if you enter &#8220;<a title="Arabist" href="http://www.ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl" target="_blank">Anonymous Arabist</a>&#8221; in the engine, you immediately get links to pictures of dead cats. Just kidding.  The first two hits (after the ad links) take you to that artful, tasteful and relevant blog. So give it a try.</p>
<p>2. This dog is dead.</p>
<p><a href="http://mantiqaltayr.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/brown003.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-238" title="brown003" src="http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/brown003.jpg?w=300" alt="brown003" width="300" height="225" /></a><a title="Brown" href="http://www.unobserver.com/printen.php?id=5640" target="_blank">This is why</a>. Ms. Albrecht has been campaigning<a title="Chips" href="http://www.spychips.com/" target="_blank"> against RFID chips</a> for many years.  More than this cute little doggie&#8217;s life is at stake.  But it is sure is a sad story.</p>
<p>3. <a title="Morons" href="http://www.tulsanighttohonorisrael.com/" target="_blank">These people</a> are morons. More on their ilk later.</p>
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<link>http://techiegadget.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/ixquick/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>techiegadgets</dc:creator>
<guid>http://techiegadget.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/ixquick/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[IXQUICK This website is all about a search engine, wherein a query will deliver best results collate]]></description>
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<link>http://13oclock.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/take-a-stand-against-google/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>13oclock</dc:creator>
<guid>http://13oclock.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/take-a-stand-against-google/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In October 2006, a former CIA case officer claimed that Google is very involved with the CIA. Robert]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft" src="http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/scroogle/george.gif" alt="" width="230" height="220" />In October 2006, a former CIA case officer claimed that <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774" target="_blank">Google is very involved with the CIA</a>. Robert David Steele also claimed that the CIA <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/ex_agent_cia_seed_money_helped_launch_google" target="_blank">provided Google with seed money </a>when it was starting out.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all bad enough, if true. But now <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google24-2009jan24,0,5572738.story" target="_blank">Google is playing politics in Washington D.C.</a> </p>
<p>Google CEO Eric Schmidt campaigned for Barack Obama and was on the Obama transition team along with three other Googlers. Now, Google is ready to capitalize on its backing of President Obama and pursue its agenda in the nation&#8217;s capital.</p>
<p>Rumors have recently circulated that Google is lobbying for a law allowing the sale of electronic medical records (which we will all be compelled to have if that part of the Obama &#8220;stimulus package&#8221; remains intact) &#8211; <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/01/28/google-opposes-sale-of-personal-medical-info/" target="_blank">a rumor that Google denies</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Google does not sell health data. In fact, one of our most steadfast privacy principles is that we don’t sell our users’ personal data, whether it’s stored in Google Health, Gmail, or in any of our products. And from a policy perspective, we oppose the sale of medical information in the health care industry.</p></blockquote>
<p>The thing is, Google doesn&#8217;t have to sell your medical data to advertisers. All they have to sell are certain keywords like &#8220;diabetes&#8221;, &#8220;pregnancy&#8221;, &#8220;cancer&#8221;, and so on to advertisers much as they do now with their AdSense program.</p>
<p>The difference could be, however, that Google could know what health concerns you have based on your electronic medical record. You could then receive targeted advertising whether you are actively searching those terms or not. Don&#8217;t believe me? Wait for it.</p>
<p>So how can you search the web without Google? Easy! </p>
<blockquote><p> <strong><a href="http://ixquick.com/uk/protect_privacy.html" target="_blank">Ixquick Protects Your Privacy !<br />
</a></strong>The only search engine that does not record your IP address.</p>
<p>Your privacy is under attack !Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data are recorded.<br />
Your search terms, the time of your visit, the links you choose, your IP address and your User ID cookies all get stored in a database.</p>
<p>The identity profiles that can be constructed from this cloud of information represent modern day gold for marketers.<br />
But government officials, hackers and even criminals also have an interest in getting their hands on your personal search data.<br />
And sooner or later they will&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>I just switched from <a href="http://www.dogpile.com" target="_blank">Dogpile</a> to <a href="http://ixquick.com/uk/protect_privacy.html" target="_blank">Ixquick </a>for better privacy. So far, my searches are returned very quickly and with better results than Google or even Dogpile.</p>
<p>Switch today and take a stand against Google tyranny!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r304/webby65/scroogle/goostep2.gif" alt="" width="150" height="190" /></p>
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<link>http://cagadotar.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-novices-guide-to-the-internet-and-computing-pt5/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>caga</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cagadotar.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-novices-guide-to-the-internet-and-computing-pt5/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Different rules apply to different browsers and nations. I can only speak from personal experience. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Different rules apply to different browsers and nations. I can only speak from personal experience. I use proxies for two reasons, by passing web filters, and getting around bans from forums I&#8217;ve trolled. Everything you do on the Internet leaves little clues behind that all point vaguely in your direction. Every search shows your interest or affliction, every website leaves your filthy foot prints on it&#8217;s white carpet, everywhere you go you leave a steaming lump of offal called an IP address.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;Trolling&#8221; is what fishermen do when they allow their bait to trail behind the moving boat until some gullible fish takes the bait.</em></p>
<p>Now most people have a dynamic IP and have no real reason to use a proxy except to cover their illegal activities.  At least that&#8217;s the way it was 10 or so years ago before everyone got broadband. Now you still have a dynamic IP more than likely, but it&#8217;s probably only apt to change about once a month or sometimes once every three months like mine is. Now there are still very few real reasons to use a proxy for the average user, but never-the-less I&#8217;ll cover some real ones.</p>
<p>Chances are good that if you work at a company that requires it&#8217;s employees to use a computer to do menial tasks that require accessing a webpage and you tried to go to your favorite sites instead, you&#8217;ve encountered something similar to the <a href="http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en">Barracuda web filter</a>. Web filters are like firewalls and in many cases are firewalls that keep you from going on MySpace and Facebook during work hours. The things these filters block are normally updated by one giant list at some cold server room with the additional list kept by your System Administrator. Now your System Administrator seems like a cool guy on the smoke breaks, but he probably won&#8217;t unban Facebook or MySpace so you can network instead of doing menial tasks. That&#8217;s where a simple web proxy comes into play.</p>
<p>I would advise you of my super secret web proxies, but I don&#8217;t want my enormous fanbase going and getting my proxies blocked, so just do a search for &#8220;web proxy&#8221; on google or Altavista or whatever you are using these days. Just don&#8217;t be upset when they release your IP to the Feds with all your search history exposed for the world to see. That&#8217;s right, I think. try out the new thing! <a href="http://ixquick.com">IXQUICK</a>!</p>
<p>IxQuick is a foreigner&#8217;s anonymous metasearch engine. It doesn&#8217;t store IP addresses even on anonymous users.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Your<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address"> IP address</a> is linked to you by your ISP and can (normally with a warrant) be used to find you!</em></p>
<p>Web proxies are well and good enough on their own, but what I really want you to know about is real proxy use. I would like to recommend<a href="http://portabletor.sourceforge.net/"> portable Tor</a> for this guide as it&#8217;s already set up, can be carried around on a thumbdrive and uses the Tor network to proxify you. Tor by itself is complicated enough for me not to want to explain it at all, but rest assured you can find plenty of info about it on their download site.</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://whatismyip.com/">WhatismyIP.com</a> and it will inform you of your IP of course.</p>
<p>I am going to assume you are using my browser of choice, Firefox, for the rest of this tutorial, but just understand that you set up proxy values in Internet Explorer through &#8220;Tools&#8221;&#62;&#8221;Internet Options&#8221;&#62;&#8221;Connections&#8221;&#62;&#8221;Lan Settings&#8221;.</p>
<p>Open up Firefox, click on &#8220;Tools&#8221;&#62;&#8221;Options&#8221; then click on the tabs (it may be under &#8220;general&#8221; or &#8220;advanced&#8221; depending on the version) until you see &#8220;Connection Settings&#8221;. Click on the &#8220;Connection Settings&#8221; button and you should see a few settings to choose from. 1. Direct Connection to the Internet 2. Auto-Detect proxy Settings for this Network and the real winner 3. Manual Proxy Configuration.</p>
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<div id="attachment_55" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-55" title="Tor Portable in Firefox 3" src="http://cagadotar.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/capture.png" alt="Proxy setup in firefox" width="500" height="607" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Proxy setup in firefox</p></div>
<p>Select the third option and the options beneath will light up and become editable. In the first box labeled &#8220;HTTP Proxy:&#8221; Enter in 127.0.0.1 and port 8118 then hit &#8220;OK&#8221; Now run Portable Tor. Once portable Tor is connected and running try going to <a href="http://whatismyip.com/">WhatismyIP.com</a> again and see the difference. If it&#8217;s still the same than something went wrong, go back and try again.  When you get tired of browsing through Tor you can go back into the settings again and change the connection back to number 1. Direct Connection to the Internet and click OK again. You will now be back to normal.</p>
<p>There are thousands of proxies available online some free, some pay. I won&#8217;t list any here, but a quick search on goo&#8230;er..<a href="http://ixquick.com">.Ixquick.com</a> should get you the info you want right away. All you need to use the public proxies is change the 127.0.0.1 with their IP address and change the port with their port number. When you see their IP it may be listed as something like &#8220;64.15.0.0:80&#8243; well the IP is the 64.15.0.0 and the port is the 80. That&#8217;s what the &#8220;:&#8221; designates. The default proxy port is 8080 port 80 is the default HTTP port, or the one which websites are served to and through.</p>
<p>Now my Internet ninjas, go forth and be peaceful. try not to do anything that you need a proxy to hide behind and try not to get fired for using the Internet for personal reasons. One more good idea is not to access anything personal through a proxy, you never know who runs the proxy after all.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out parts <a href="../2009/01/27/novice-guide-to-the-internet-and-computing-part-1/">1</a>, <a href="../2009/01/28/47/">2</a>, <a href="../2009/01/29/the-novices-guide-to-computing-and-the-internet-pt3/">3</a> and<a href="http://cagadotar.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-novices-guide-to-the-internet-and-computing-pt-4/"> 4 </a>of this series.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. Katherine Albrecht is to Head Media Relations For Ixquick.com]]></title>
<link>http://skylla2012.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/dr-katherine-albrecht-is-to-head-media-relations-for-ixquickcom/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>skylla2012</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Albrecht will head U.S. media relations for Ixquick.com. Ixquick bills its self as the worlds mo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Dr. Albrecht will head U.S. media relations for Ixquick.com. Ixquick bills its self as the worlds most privacy friendly search engine.</p>
<p>Dr. Albrecht has a decade of experience as a researcher, activist, and media commentator. She is best known for her work on privacy issues associated with RFID and retail data collection. Dr. Albrecht is co-author of the book &#8220;Spy Chips,&#8221; has a daily, syndicated talk radio show, and has written articles for Scientific American and the Denver University Law Review.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited to be working with Ixquick because I&#8217;m a huge fan of their<br />
product,&#8221; said Albrecht. &#8220;Ixquick.com guarantees to delete all search<br />
data so it can&#8217;t be abused by Big Brother bureaucrats and snoopy<br />
marketers. I&#8217;ve been using Ixquick as my own search engine for months,<br />
and I can&#8217;t wait to tell others who care about privacy as much as I<br />
do.&#8221;</p>
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<p>You can take <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/" target="_blank">Ixquick Metasearch</a> for a test drive.</p>
<p>And visit Dr. Albrecht&#8217;s web sites:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spychips.com/"></a><a href="http://www.spychips.com/"></a><a href="http://www.spychips.com/" target="_blank">http://www.spychips.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.antichips.com/" target="_blank">http://www.antichips.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nocards.org/" target="_blank">http://www.nocards.org/</a><a href="http://www.spychips.com/"></a></p>
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<link>http://paranormaleromane.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/suchmaschine-die-keine-daten-speichert/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paranormaleromane</dc:creator>
<guid>http://paranormaleromane.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/suchmaschine-die-keine-daten-speichert/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gerade entdeckt- normale Suchmaschinen speichern allerhand Daten, aus denen leicht ein Profil erstel]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Gerade entdeckt- normale Suchmaschinen speichern allerhand Daten, aus denen leicht ein Profil erstellt werden kann.Bei dieser Suchmaschine geschieht das nicht, daher die Empfehlung:<a href="http://ixquick.com/deu/?cat=web" target="_blank">http://ixquick.com/deu/?cat=web</a></p>
<p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:x-small;"><strong><a href="http://ixquick.com"><img src="http://ixquick.com/graphics/eng/button_blb.gif" border="0" alt="Ixquick Metasearch" width="142" height="48" align="top" /></a></strong></span></p>
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<link>http://stormcloud10.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/ixquick-neuer-stern-am-suchmaschinenhimmel/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stormcloud</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stormcloud10.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/ixquick-neuer-stern-am-suchmaschinenhimmel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vor fast einem halben Jahr hatte ich über die Suchmaschine Cuil geschrieben, um die es schon wieder ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Vor fast einem halben Jahr hatte ich <a href="http://stormcloud10.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/neue-suchmaschine-cuil/" target="_blank">über die Suchmaschine Cuil geschrieben</a>, um die es schon wieder recht ruhig geworden ist in der Bloggosphäre.</p>
<p>Ein Freund hat mich dieser Tage auf eine Metasuchmaschine aufmerksam gemacht hat, die auf jeden Fall Erwähnung verdient und die in meiner Firefox-Suchleiste auf jeden Fall einen festen Platz behalten wird: <a href="http://ixquick.com/" target="_blank">ixquick.com</a></p>
<p>Die Benutzeroberfläche nimmt sich auf den ersten Blick reichlich unspektakulär, was im Grunde nicht schlecht sein muss. Wer sich vom ersten Eindruck nicht abschrecken lässt, kann das Erschienungsbild auch im Einstellungsdialog anpassen. Wichtiger ist ohnehin das, was sie unter der Haube hat.</p>
<p>Eine Recherche bei <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixquick" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> hat die ersten Pluspunkte offen gelegt: Datenschutz wird hier großgeschrieben. Klar, ein derzeit schlagendes Argumemt, wenn man die Anwender von Google weg ins eigene Boot holen will. Ein Hinweis darauf, dass hier mehr als bloße Phrasendrescherei dahinterstecken könnte, liefert hingegen das Europäische Datenschutzgütesiegel, das Mitte des Jahres vom <a href="http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/edps/site/mySite/lang/de/pid/1" target="_blank">Europäischen Datenschutzbeauftragten Peter Hustinx</a> verliehen wurde.</p>
<p>Wichtig für eine Suchmaschine sind natürlich die Suchergebnisse die sie liefert. Und hier habe ich einen eklatanten Fehler begangen. Man sollte nie als ersten Test seinen eigenen Nickname eingeben <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  :</p>
<p><a href="http://stormcloud10.wordpress.com/files/2008/11/stormcloud-ixquick-metasuche.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-276" title="stormcloud-ixquick-metasuche" src="http://stormcloud10.wordpress.com/files/2008/11/stormcloud-ixquick-metasuche.png" alt="stormcloud-ixquick-metasuche" width="493" height="665" /></a></p>
<p>Abgesehen von den gesponserten Treffern liege ich mir meinen beiden Blogs, meinem Eintrag bei blogoscoop und meinen Profilen im MandrivaUser.de-Forum und meinem Jamendo-Account auf den ersten sechs Plätzen, im weiteren Verlauf findet sich noch mehr. So geschmeichelt fällt es daher schwer, noch eine ansatzweise objektive Aussage zu den Suchergebnissen zu liefern&#8230;</p>
<p>Dennoch habe ich noch die Bildersuche bemüht, für mich eines der wichtigsten Werkzeuge einer Suchmaschine. Hier habe ich nach einem Häkchen gesucht, das man in Präsentationen immer mal brauchen kann. In Google hatte ich mit dem Begriff &#8220;Haken&#8221; sofort Glück und bekam mit diesem doch eher unglücklichen Begriff auf der ersten Seite fünf Treffer präsentiert, in ixquick leider keinen einzigen.</p>
<p>Trotzdem hinterlässt die Suchmaschine einen positiven Eindruck und stellt eine willkommene Alternative zur werbeverseuchten Datenkrake Google dar.</p>
<p>Danke für den tollen Tipp!</p>
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<link>http://anfy.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/alternative-zu-google-als-suchmaschine/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>anfy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://anfy.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/alternative-zu-google-als-suchmaschine/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[http://eu.ixquick.com/deu/press/eu_privacy_seal.html http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/we]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/web/1869728/">http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/web/1869728/</a></p>
<p>Hier zwei kurze Berichte über Suchmaschinenalternativen die uns evtl. ein wenig unabhängiger von Evil-Google machen.</p>
<p>[Treibholz]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch search engine wins first Euro-privacy award - Feature]]></title>
<link>http://hunterseeker.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/dutch-search-engine-wins-first-euro-privacy-award-feature/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hunterseeker</dc:creator>
<guid>http://hunterseeker.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/dutch-search-engine-wins-first-euro-privacy-award-feature/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>While checking out news at the <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/">Earth Times.</a> I came across a rather interesting article regarding a Dutch Search Engine, IxQuick, The article talks about it being the first company to get the European Privacy Certificate. Then something caught my eye. Here is the excerpt:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Just ten days ago a New York court ordered YouTube to transfer data it had stored, to Viacom. This incident only confirms what IxQuick has been saying for a long time &#8211; only erasing data can guarantee privacy.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Well, because of the terabytes of data that flow across the internet at any given moment its no wonder that I had somehow missed this particular article:</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://my.opera.com/scrface/blog/show.dml/2303106">Court Orders YouTube to Give Viacom Video Logs</a></h3>
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<p>One of the ironies of the IxQuick article was that it mentioned that the YouTube had been ordered to transfer its data ten days ago which would make it the 4th of July, Independence Day!</p>
<p>Anyway, both articles are well worth reading as they pertain to the privacy issues that we must confront on a daily basis. The way things are going privacy is quickly becoming a thing of the past and subject to more and more government intervention. Soon we will have one big Government Police State similar or greater than the old German Stasi!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">As for IxQuick I have already added it to my Firefox list of search engines.</p>
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<strong>Dutch search engine wins first Euro-privacy award &#8211; Feature </strong><br />
Amsterdam &#8211; Dutch search engine IxQuick Monday became the first company to receive the newly-established European Privacy Certificate. The award, expected to become an important instrument in privacy and data protection legislation, was given to IxQuick by the European watchdog for data protection in Kiel, Germany. <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/218829,dutch-search-engine-wins-first-euro-privacy-award--feature.html">More…</a></p>
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<link>http://thalex.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/internetsuchmaschine-ixquickcom-erhalt-europaisches-datenschutzgutesiegel/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thalex</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thalex.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/internetsuchmaschine-ixquickcom-erhalt-europaisches-datenschutzgutesiegel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Die Internetsuchmaschine ixquick.com ist heute in Kiel mit dem ersten Europäischen Datenschutzgütesi]]></description>
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<link>http://aufrechtgehen.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/metasuchmaschine-ixquick/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aufrechtgehen</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aufrechtgehen.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/metasuchmaschine-ixquick/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wer das Internet regelmäßig und häufig nutzt, weiß, daß die Privatssphäre immer mehr gefährdet ist u]]></description>
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<p>Wer das Internet regelmäßig und häufig nutzt, weiß, daß die Privatssphäre immer mehr gefährdet ist und wir Nutzer im &#8220;gläserner&#8221; werden. Wenn ich einen Suchbegriff bei den führenden Suchmaschinen eingebe, wird dort meine Abfrage zusammen mit meiner IP-Adresse automatisch gespeichert. Was dann mit meinen gespeicherten Daten passiert, kann ich nicht mehr nachvollziehen. Jedenfalls wäre es problemlos möglich, daraus ein Nutzerprofil zu erstellen. Abhilfe verspricht nun &#8220;ixquick&#8221;, eine Metasuchmaschine aus den Niederlanden, die bei der dortigen Behörde für Datenschutz registriert ist. Wenn ich bei <a href="http://eu.ixquick.com/"><strong>ixquick</strong></a> einen Suchbegriff eingebe, fragt die Suchmaschine unter einer einheitlichen IP-Adresse andere Suchmaschinen ab und speichert dabei selber nicht die IP-Adresse des Nutzers oder gibt diese weiter! Mehr unter: <a href="http://www.ixquick.com/deu/"><strong>ixquick</strong></a></p>
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