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Blekko.com lets you use /backslashes also called /slash tags to slash out spammy sites, and non-important sites to you. You can also click the spam button to hide sites which you find spammy forever.

If you add /date to the end of your search like blekko /date . It will sort your results by newer dates.

Halo /images  will return back image results for the term Halo.

cats /videos  will return video results for cats.

I notice there seem to be fewer user generated content sites like eHow, About.com, and similar sites in Blekko which can be a good thing or bad if you prefer getting info from a user rather then a site like Microsoft.com or more famous writer.

Blekko also claims to remove spam, content farms, and malware like virus, spyware, and bad programs which can mess up your PC.

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I been using DuckDuckGo.com  (or you can type in ddg.gg  in your address bar  go to DuckDuckGo) to search for web pages online. I like how fast loading it is because of it’s minimal design. I like the duck face logo since I feel Logos are being replaced by text which can be not as interesting as cartoony animal logos. I also find it nice that Duck Duck Go also shows websites logo/favicon on the left side of all the results which makes it easy to know which website it is listing quickly by looking at the logo.

There also seem to be fewer spammy, or websites with very little text and content in the DuckDuckGo Results section.

Duck Duck Go also claims to not track it’s user while they search which is good for people who like privacy. There are also not a lot or barely any noticeable ads on Duck Duck Go since they are on the far right compared to other search engines like Yahoo which has ads on top of the search results and to the right of search. You can also turn ads off in the settings. However, I find the ads more useful since they are usually Amazon and Ebay Affiliate products which I might be interested in buying from anyways since I buy a lot from Ebay, and Amazon rather then sponsored websites which I will never or highly unlikely to buy from.

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Soluto will make using your computer less frustrating because of freezes, and slow downs caused by software starting up when Windows start-up, crashing software, and web browser add-ons which are making your web browser sluggish or crash more. It also can be used to change your web browser search engine back to your preferred search engine like Google.

Soluto is a crowdsourced program which uses the power of the Solutu user community to automatically form the PC Genome Knowledgebase which gives suggestions to users on what programs are safe to pause, and how to fix application crashes and slowdowns. Since Soluto is crowdsourced by the Soluto user community, you are a lot less likely to get bad advice about disadling, enabling, and delaying programs, and fixing crashes.

Soluto is a system utilities software which help newbies to more advance users see what programs are starting during start-up, and how to improve a computers performance and reliability when you are using it with Soluto. I like how Soluto design is point and click rather then form based with a ton of wizards, checkboxs, and confusing options like other system startup utility programs I used.   Plus, you don’t risk uninstalling programs and browser add-ons which you need since Soluto does not uninstall any programs or files from your computer. You also don’t risk losing the startup option for your programs because Soluto does not delete Startup registry keys like many other system utility programs. You can pause or delay programs from starting up during Windows Startup. Delay means your startup programs will launch when your computer is done loading your enabled Windows  startup programs has started meaning your computer is idle.  You can still open programs when you pause them by clicking on the programs shortcut icon on your Taskbar, startmenu, or Windows Desktop. Pause just means programs like Skype, Windows Live Messenger, etc won’t automatically launch on your desktop or system tray. If you are not sure if you should Pause, delay or enabled a program, you can check the Soluto crowd source community which is made up of suggestions from other Soluto users.

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