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I thought it would be trivial to add a custom search engine to Firefox. To be fair, it is fairly trivial, but not quite as easy as navigating to the correct Firefox settings page and adding a new entry. Instead, I found the process to be somewhat hidden and less obvious.
Recently, I've been using Startpage as my default search engine. I've known about the service for a while, but never really paid it any attention until now. Anyhow, I like it a lot and it reminds of how Google Search used to work, before all the AI stuff. The privacy features are a bonus.
Listening to the Vergecast 'How AI will change phones — and the whole internet'. Has an interesting interview with The Browser Company’s CEO about Arc browser. I'm interested to give Arc a try and I've signed up for the Windows wait list.
I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT Google invited some of the most vocal independent site owners who’ve been shadowbanned by their brutal updates of the last two years, and 20 of them came to pay their respects. We had no idea what the purpose of our visit was going in, but we knew by the time we left.
The deterioration of Google web media companies can’t count on any of the traffic coming from Google or Facebook any more. Very few, even one that are frugally run, are capable of surviving on the traffic that remains.
Thoughts on Arc - macwright.com The user-base size that consumer-facing startups need to meet expectations is just unfathomable because their average revenue per user rounds to zero. Arc is wildly successful but it needs to be just outstandingly successful to succeed. Right now it’s very popular in tech circles, but consumer software tech startups need to be popular like Amazon or Walmart.
Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now - YouTube 
opensearch/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md at master · dewitt/opensearch This document defines the OpenSearch description document, the OpenSearch Query element, the OpenSearch URL template syntax, and the OpenSearch response elements. Collectively these formats may be referred to as "OpenSearch 1.1" or simply "OpenSearch".
OpenSearch description format | MDN The OpenSearch description format can be used to describe the web interface of a search engine. This allows a website to describe a search engine for itself, so that a browser or other client application can use that search engine. OpenSearch is supported by (at least) Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Chrome.
My name is Philip Newborough and I’m a full stack web developer living and working in Lincoln, England. This website (philipnewborough.co.uk) serves as my personal homepage. When I’m not working with tech, I love to ride bicycles with my wife and friends.