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Best Way To Search For Porn

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Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has its own unique approach to video search which has engendered both praise and pans. Perhaps the most remarked upon feature is the mouse hover over a thumbnail of a video and Bing will play 30 seconds of the clip with sound. It has already been noted that this feature allows kids to view porn videos, and has caused controversy among organizations dedicated to protecting kids online.
Bing displays the source of the video file and its length under the thumbnail. The search engine does not present video search results as a single scrollable page, but requires you to click successive pages.
The sources Microsoft is pulling results from appear to include:

Trial searches showed some degree of duplication of videos in the results, so the technology may still need a little tweaking.
The fact that the “hover” feature can present porn video to kids has raised the ire of several commentators, most notably CNET columnist Larry Magid. He wrote, “…when I searched for a word that was sure to bring up porn, I was first warned that it ‘may return explicit adult content’ and told that ‘to view these videos, turn off safe search.’ One click later, safe search was off and I was looking a page of naughty thumbnails. And, as advertised, hovering the mouse over a thumbnail started the video and audio. Even when playing in a small thumbnail, it was unmistakably hard core porn.” Magid went on to warn parents that ther only option regarding their kids and porn is to “watch them, educate them or filter them.”
Magid admitted other search engines enable kids to find porn but complained that Bing made it “too easy. He noted that filtering programs built into Vista and Mac OS can block porn sites but it is uncleart how they worked with Bing.
At least one commercial filtering software claimed to block Bing “hover” porn. According to its company blog, Safe Eyes filtering software “blocks all pornographic content on Bing and Google searches out of the box.”
Microsoft responded to the controversy by making changes in Bing’s video search functionality that made it easier for parents to monitor or block what thier kids are viewing on Bing. The first was that “explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain, which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be.” This change enables parents to use filters built into 3rd party software and into Mac OS and Vista.
The second change was that Microsoft will return the “source URL” of videos and images so that a filter that blocks a soecific site will also block images or videos from that site.
Magid tested Bing video search with the new changes and expressed satisfaction that the changes worked as intended and made Bing safer for kids. But he cautioned that parents need to remain vigilant about thier children’s internet surfing.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here .
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Ever been frustrated with your web search results? We've all been there! Fortunately, there are several tricks you can use to search better and get more relevant results.

Searching the web more effectively doesn't really take much effort. There are slight changes you can make to your searches to better explain to the search engine what it is you're looking for. Plus, most of them have advanced options you can use to make an even better ultra-targeted search.

Below are some tried and true web search techniques that work with virtually any search engine, along with a few basic web search skills you need to have for truly successful web searches.

You can use a mobile search engine to browse the web from your phone or tablet, and some of these tips work with those, too.

The more relevant words you use in your search, the more successful your results will be.

For example, entering coffee when trying to find coffee shops in Michigan would provide far too many unnecessary results. Typing cat when you're in need of a drawing of a black cat, is just as unhelpful.

However, modifying it slightly to include the type of coffee or cat you want and the specific location or color you're looking for, is usually enough to provide the results you're after.

It's fine to use natural language in your web search like you see in this screenshot because a good search engine will filter out the "common" words that aren't necessary and pick up important terms like locations and other defining words.

Another important tip for getting better search results is to use quotation marks to group words together . When you do this, you're telling the search engine that everything inside the quotes should be grouped just like that in the results.

When you search the web with quotes, you drastically cut down the number of results that the search engine shows you, making a hyper-focused set of results.

Here's an example where we're grouping two sets of words so that each set will be searched just as they're typed here:

This shows results that include Los Angeles instead of other pages that could otherwise include "los" or "angeles," such as Los Pinos, Los Cocos, Angeles National Forest, etc.

The same is true for the second half. Since we want to find apartments for rent and not for sale, and we want to avoid other things for rent like houses and condos, we use quotes for better results, ensuring those three words are next to each other.

Using quotes is ideal for finding very specific content, and it's supposed to cut down on the results you see. However, if you stuff lots of words between quotes, you might cut off too many results, including helpful ones that just aren't worded exactly as you made your search.

Not all search engines are created equally. There are many kinds that serve a very specific purpose, so if a "regular" one, like Google, Bing, or Yahoo, wasn't enough to find what you're looking for, consider a totally different approach.

An audio search engine is one example where the website or app is built specifically for finding audio files, whether they be sound clips, music, effects, etc. A search engine that focuses on only videos or images, for example, is unhelpful if you're looking for music files.

People search engines are available, too, as well as image search engines , invisible web search engines, job search engines, torrent search engines, and others. Niche search engines might be helpful, too.

If you've ever tried using a website's built-in search tool, but haven't been successful, you definitely aren't alone. One way to get better results when searching any particular site is to use Google.

This web search tip involves Google's "site" option . Here's an example where we're looking for something on Lifewire:

The same technique works for restricting the results to a particular top-level domain , such as GOV:

Another web search trick that's deceptively simple is using addition and subtraction to make your search results more relevant. This is called Boolean search , and is one of the guiding principles behind the way most search engines frame their search results.

Say you're searching for Tom Ford, but you get lots of results for Ford Motors. Fixing this is easy by combining the quotes trick you learned above with the minus/hyphen key:

Now, the results include only pages that mention Tom Ford, and the search engine removed those pesky car results.

As you sift through the results, if you find other words or phrases that you don't want to see, feel free to keep adding those to the search with the minus key to refine it more and more.

A website that goes down or a web page that's been taken offline, either temporarily or permanently, isn't necessarily inaccessible. Sometimes, you can access a cached version of the page or browse for an archived copy of it.

Not all web pages are cached, but Google provides a simple way to check . You can do this if the site won't open for any reason, like if it was taken down, or it won't load correctly due to traffic overload.

However, the cache option on Google doesn't work for really old web pages. The alternative way to search through a site that's no longer live on the internet is to find it on Wayback Machine.

Most search engines have advanced options you can employ to get way better results. We've gone over a few of them above, but it's important to know that there are usually far more available.

A simple example can be seen with Yahoo Search. When you search for images on that site, you can pick a specific color, size, and type of image to look for. A video search is similar, but lets you pick a length and resolution to look for.

Lots of web search tools have advanced options. You can see some examples in our list of Bing's advanced search tricks and Google Images' search options article.

A handy advanced search option that works on Google is to find files. You can use Google to find files like PDFs, Word docs, and other kinds.

For other sites, look for a Filter , Advanced , Tools , More Options , or similar button/menu around the search bar.

Most search engines let you use a wildcard character to throw a broader search net. Doing this lets you communicate to the search engine that it can replace the wildcard character with whatever it wants.

A wildcard might be the asterisk (*), hashtag (#), or question mark (?), but the asterisk is the most common.

Here's an example where we want to search for truck rentals in California, but we're not specific as to where in the state the rental company has to be.

We'll get better results with quotes because we're looking for lists that show all the best truck rental companies in various areas.

Here's a similar search that would drastically change the results, showing us all sorts of rental businesses, but only in San Jose.

Effective web searches don't just involve tricks for using a search engine. Once you land on a page that you found through a web search, you might still stumble when finding whatever it is that you're looking for.

Fortunately, every web browser lets you do a keyword search on that page. This is a bit similar to the site search you learned above, but instead of just locating the pages that include those words, this trick shows you exactly where on the page the keyword appears.

To do this, use the Ctrl + F (Windows) or Command + F (Mac) keyboard shortcut to get a prompt that asks you what you're looking for. Most mobile browsers support a find function, too, usually hidden away in the menu.

For example, if you end up on a web page about a person you were researching, and you want to quickly see if the page mentions anything about the year 2005, you can use the shortcut to enter 2005 . This will highlight every instance of it on the page and let you quickly jump to each line.

Don't fall into the rut of using just one search engine for all your web searches. Google isn't the only one out there. In fact, in addition to the unique ones mentioned above, there are several alternatives to Google for normal web searches.

If one search engine isn't helping you find what you're looking for, you might have better results with a different one. Some of them use different algorithms and have unique filtering options that can ultimately show you different results than another one.

If you're not sure which one to use, you might try Dogpile , which combines a few of them into one to help you get better results without bouncing around to different sites.

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This guide aims to be the most in-depth resource available on private search engines. For this 2022 update, we examine the best private search engines, search results censorship, and how to keep your data safe and secure when searching online.
In today’s world, search engines are a necessity to find what you’re looking for online. Unfortunately, however, there are two big problems you will likely encounter:
This private search engines guide will thoroughly examine both of these problems and provide you with the best reliable solutions and alternatives we can find. So let’s begin by examining the first problem with search engine privacy.
It is sad to say, but most of the big search engines today serve as data collection tools for advertising companies . That’s right, they collect your private data and use it to make money with targeted ads. This is a booming industry where your data ends up in the hands of third parties and you are the product .
Here is the information being collected by some of the larger (not private) search engines:
As you may know, the items you enter into a search engine can disclose highly personal information about you. Things like as medical conditions, employment status, financial information, political beliefs, and other private details. This data can be collected, stored, and linked to detailed digital profiles which can even contain your real identity. The only way to ensure that your data is safe is to keep it out of the hands of the data collectors. To do that, you need to use a private search engine .
Many people are getting fed up with online censorship, particularly when trying to find specific information that was previously available. Censorship can take many forms. With search engines today, censorship can come from filtering, manipulating, and/or blocking certain search results from appearing.
Unfortunately, the censorship problem affects many of the private search engines for these two reasons:
An exception to this may be with independent search engines that deploy their own crawlers , such as with Mojeek , or Brave Search . Additionally, with Searx , you can select which engines it uses.
So let’s examine some alternative private search engines you can start using today.
Finding the best private search engine for your needs is a subjective process. Your circumstances and goals are unique, meaning there’s no one-size-fits-all. Things to consider include:
In a perfect world, a search engine would give you great results while also respecting your privacy. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect world. Any of the private search engines in this guide could be the best solution for you. But you will need to test drive the ones that look the best to you to see which is really the best fit. Before we start, there is one issue you need to be aware of:
Metasearch vs search : Most private search engines are technically metasearch engines . While a search engine crawls the internet and gathers its own results, a metasearch engine pulls its search results from other search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yandex.
There are also a few search engines that fall in the middle by deploying their own crawler, but also pulling results from other search engines.
Note : This list is not necessarily in rank order. Choose the best search engine for you based on your own unique needs and threat model.
Here are the best private search engines:
Jurisdiction : Not applicable ( open source , not based in any one location)
Search results : Fully customizable! You can choose from a large selection of engines to display results.
Searx is an open source metasearch engine that gathers results from other search engines while simultaneously respecting your privacy. Even better, you control which search engines Searx pulls results from, as well as specifying the categories for search results.
Searx customizability comes in handy since Google has been known to block Searx requests. We haven’t seen a good solution to the problem, but you can avoid these kinds of problems by telling Searx to avoid Google (or any other source that causes problems).
Searx also allows you to run your own instance of the search engine. The drawback with your own instance, however, is that your search results won’t be mixed with other users. Searx is open source and available on GitHub .
Because Searx is open source and freely available for anyone to use, there are a number of different public instances you can utilize. However, just like with Tor nodes , anyone with bad intentions can set up a “rogue” instance and potentially log user activity, as Searx explains here :
What are the consequences of using public instances?
If someone uses a public instance, he/she has to trust the administrator of that instance. This means that the user of the public instance does not know whether his/her requests are logged, aggregated and sent or sold to a third party.
Unfortunately the Searx project does not run an official public instance. They do recommend public instances that are operated by various individuals or entities. But how do you know those instances aren’t logging your search results on their server? You don’t!
For all we know, a public instance might run by an advertising company, or perhaps a domestic or foreign intel agencies, or just some creeps looking to spy on your data. The only way to be sure is to run your own instance.
Search Results : In our tests, most Megater search results came from Bing , followed by Scopia and Infotiger , another start-up search engine based in Germany. It also displays some results from Yandex and Yahoo.
MetaGer is an open source metasearch engine based in Germany. It gets search results from Bing, Yandex, Yahoo and others, as well as having its own web crawler. This interesting project started in 1996. It is now operated by a
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