"If you run a website and one people to be able to search it then installing a local spider to crawl your site and create a small database of your content which users may search is a relatively straightforward thing to do. Here we'll look at using mnoGoSearch - which is packaged for Debian and simple to install...

This is the Community Portal of Search Wikia, which is the wiki to implement an editable open content free search engine.

Yes, you can help. Either as a developer or a wiki editor. Please see below.

You can ask questions at the forum or talk to one of the site admins if you need specific help.

Whether your ISP is filtering content or you just want some privacy on the internet, there is always a quick solution, and it is surprisingly easy to set up. Basically, all you need to do is SSH to any Shell account that you have access to (it can even be your own PC from another location) with the option -D

I recently came across an Ubuntu-based device that is designed for viewing streaming and local video content on an HDTV. The majority of content providers stream content with proprietary codecs using DRM (Digital Rights Management) that are only compatible with Windows.

This article asks the over-simplified question, "Are property rights in ideas unethical?" The article is flawed, but worth reading. The author concludes that the IP system should change somewhat (how he doesn't specify) to accommodate free content. However, he also holds that free content is inherently dependent on proprietary content.

It seems harmless enough at first, the desire to keep ads from overtaking the content you wish to view from your favorite websites. But what so many people seem to fail to understand is that many of these content providers are using ads to make a living. Otherwise, there would be no time to gather the content and post original works in the first place.

Deskbar is often associated with search and only search. Sure, you can search you files, search Yahoo!, search Del.icio.us, or even search for a word in a dictionary, but did you know that you could DO stuff, too?

Movement to make search more open and transparent continues to gain momentum as Intellisophic agrees to open-source its text categorization software

Joomla! Cash is a new book from Packt, which has all the ingredients to make money making Joomla! websites. Written by Brandon Dawson and Tom Canavan, this book is a fast and easy read, taking the reader from the inception of an idea, to a fully working cash-generating website built on Joomla!