Duck Duck Go search engine promises privacy, delivers great search results
Duck Duck Go is a search engine created by “serial entrepreneur” Gabriel Weinberg. Its search results are drawn from a combination of sources, including its own crawler, Bing and crowdsourced sites like Wikipedia. Here are my initial impressions.
Bypass the Wall Street Journal paywall faster with a browser bookmarklet
Here’s a Javascript bookmarklet that will save you a few steps in reading Wall Street Journal articles for free.
Use Google to read the Wall Street Journal for free
Rupert Murdoch’s statement yesterday that he wants to block Google and other search engines from indexing News Corp. sites. — such as the Wall Street Journal, which hides some of its articles behind a $1.99-a-week paywall — makes now a good time to remind people that you can use Google to read those guarded Wall [...]
7 steps to turn Google Reader into a journalist’s best friend
Every journalist should use an RSS reader to keep up with news feeds. Here are seven quick and easy steps for you as a journalist to take Google Reader to the next level.
Exclude specific news sites from Google News search alerts
Web-savvy journalists use Google News alerts and/or RSS feeds to scour the Web for news related to their beat that pops up on sites they typically wouldn’t read. Here’s a quick tip for refining the results.

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