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Today's witty comment on this in the daily news was:
By returning the results from another search engine?
True story, Microsoft used to do this back in tha day. Google caught them by injecting some fake results into their search results and sure enough those fake results were turning up in Bing!
Funny stuff. Speaking of search engines, what does everyone use? I use Google just cuz I'm conditioned to. Who has the best search results these days?
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I'm partial to DuckDuckGo.
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If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm partial to DuckDuck, but roasted.
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The WebCrawler. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Fever905 wrote: Google caught them by injecting some fake results into their search results and sure enough those fake results were turning up in Bing!
Not exactly a new idea:
Trap street - Wikipedia[^]
Fever905 wrote: Speaking of search engines, what does everyone use?
Another vote for DuckDuckGo.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Fever905 wrote: Who has the best search results these days?
The one that finds what you are looking for.
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"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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AltaVista
jk, I Bing it.
Side note, If MS is using Google, how come the results are returned more quickly? I would think it would be slower with two parties tracking your every step. 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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I haven't checked this recently, but years ago, when I was searching for something in MSDN, the search engine never returned anything relevant to my question. Switch to Google, ask the same question, and it would instantly return the correct document in MSDN! Is this still the case, or have they learned how to perform a search since then?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I like to keep my systems drive neat and uncluttered, partly because I take an image of the drive from time to time as a backup. (I don't use System Restore.) In order to achieve this:
1. I keep my data on a separate internal drive (D:\).
2. I redirect temporary files to a folder on the data drive.
3. I don't use System Restore. It is not 100% reliable and the shadow copies take too much space.
4. Hibernation is turned off. In my case it is unnecessary and takes up too much disk space.
5. I run Ccleaner on a daily basis to get rid of cookies and other junk left behind by Edge.
6. I run Disk Cleanup regularly on the systems drive.
7. Whenever there is an update on Windows, I get rid of the files from the previous version on the systems drive.
And yet:
I like to do a new clean install of Windows and all apps about once a year. I did one three days ago. I cleaned the systems disk, repartitioned it and installed Windows 10 version 1909 - the same version that was running just before the clean install. I installed the exact same applications that I had running previously. When all was done and everything restored to the same state as previously, the systems drive had 24 GB more free space than it did before the clean install.
I have noticed before that disk space is slowly eroded over time for no apparent reason. What is eating the free disk space?
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Leprechauns. Since Millennials never look up from their mobiles, no-one is chasing rainbows to get their pots of gold - so they have been retrained as byte eaters. Individually they don't eat much, but as the breed inside your SSD the group consumes more and more. Think yourself lucky you don't have Banshees - they eat used space as well as free.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Quote: they have been retrained as byte eaters
Surely you meant to write "byte biters." 
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Strange. My aging Win7 installation never gets far beyond using 10& of my disk space. That might be because I have no apps. Get rid of them, it may free up s lot of space.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: 10& of my disk space
So how many bytes are there in an &?
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1.21 gigabytes. Or it was a typo.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Check %Temp% there will be a lot there. Feel free to shift-delete them all.
They'll make more.
\Windows\Software Distribution - where MS caches update files
\Windows\Prefetch - Again, Feel free to shift-delete them all.
They'll make more.
Then there is the Temporary Internet Files Cache - Browser Specific location
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Useful info. Thanks! 
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Ron Anders wrote: Then there is the Temporary Internet Files Cache - Browser Specific location
Noticed browsers (all of them) have more then 1 cache, some that don't clean even if you set the "clear cache on exit" option(s) - and yes, a lot of old & redundant crap therein.
not forgetting winduds has a system TEMP and user TEMP, as well as a few more caches hidden in AppData and ProgramData, every single problem report (sent or not), old windud updates, latest updates, a bunch of other installers that never seem to be purged, log files kept forever, ...
stuff hidden everywhere (wasn't AppData/ProgramData meant to be for settings, not caches, logs and run-time data?)
a lot of those folders I junction/link to the TEMP - makes cleaning up easy.
(even better on linux etc, link those directories to /tmp - auto purged every reboot.)
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Thanks for the tip! 
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Ron Anders wrote: \Windows\Prefetch - Again, Feel free to shift-delete them all.
well that's weird, I find that folder but I can't open it.
No message no nothing, doubleclick / entering on it does nothing at all.
(and Yes I'm an admin on this pc)
Tom
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Hmmm.... Never saw that action before.
Maybe the ntfs index is in disrepair. idk
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Think it's some sort off permission problem. It is in a company domain.
Still strange I don't get a message telling me I have no permissions tho.
A colleague does get a message stating that ...
Ah well not important :p
Tom
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Strange! I have bo issue accessing that folder.
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Cp-Coder wrote: I have noticed before that disk space is slowly eroded over time for no apparent reason. What is eating the free disk space?
Some programs insist on cluttering your C with temp downloads and log files; search the "ProgramData" folder in the root - my WinPC is 3 months now, and already it has 5Gb there. One of the offending ProgramData subfolders is "PackageCache" (1.7 Gb) and there's NVIDIA taking 1.87Gb in their private "downloader" folder there.
There's another downloadfolder on "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download" which has a few MB in it. If your machine was older, there's some minidumps you might want to get rid of, but I don't think there's a lot of them on a fresh machine.
Makes me wonder though how much download-folders are present on the drive
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Thanks!
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