To access the Search Assistant, you can click the Search button on the toolbar or use the keystroke shortcut [Ctrl][E] or pull down the View menu and select Explorer Bar Search. Figure B Having the results remain on the screen lets you quickly investigate each site. Figure C The Search Assistant provides you with a total of seven categories, and each one provides you with an appropriate search form.
Figure D You can configure how you want the Search Assistant to work. Editor's Picks. The best programming languages to learn in Check for Log4j vulnerabilities with this simple-to-use script. TasksBoard is the kanban interface for Google Tasks you've been waiting for. Paging Zefram Cochrane: Humans have figured out how to make a warp bubble. Comment and share: Internet Explorer's Search Assistant gives you plenty of search options.
Show Comments. Hide Comments. My Profile Log out. Join Discussion. Add your Comment. I certainly didn't pick up anything to contradict that. But there is some obvious collecting when SA is used to search the Internet.
Information collected by the Search Companion cannot be used to identify you individually, and is never used in conjunction with other data sources that may contain personal data. Hopefully there aren't too many loopholes in that, though I rather think the user's IP can be considered personally identifying.
However, MS tells us that the policy statement is out of date. IPs were logged for testing purposes during the XP beta period; but since the product launch, there has been no IP logging. In addition to the privacy statement, the remaining files fetched are XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language stylesheets: transform.
Users curious to know exactly what they contain can quite easily locate them on their local machine and have a peek. According to MS, they're simply used to maintain up-to-date associations between file extensions and file types, to make searching more productive.
I'm not acquainted with XSL, so I'm in no position to affirm that or to argue with it, but I'd be pleased to hear from readers who can shed additional light on the subject. For now it appears that there's nothing here for users to worry about. But there is a question about MS playing fast and loose with people's Internet connections. Certainly, the minute one ventures onto the Web, one starts bleeding information all over the place, fetching images and ads and taking cookies from secondary and tertiary sources too numerous to mention.
But when we run an application for some local business like a file search, we don't expect it to connect silently to the Net, even for a good reason. When we discover something like this, it feels like someone else is in control of our computer, and that is definitely not a good feeling. If Trustworthy Computing is going to mean anything, it's going to have to mean that actions like file downloads aren't going to happen without the user's knowledge and consent.
A simple popup asking if one wants the latest XSL files with the options to decline, to be asked each time, or to grant permission to go ahead without further consultation is all that would be needed. Although the companies faced the highest attrition rates in three years and were forced to raise hiring targets, increasing use of technology during the pandemic has given a wide range of verticals a reason to shift from data centres to the cloud.
In turn, the pandemic's subsequent digitisation race has presented the IT consulting companies with a thriving market. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC will hike capital spending by a nearly third in to build out production capacity in the expectation that demand for chips keeps flooding in.
The top line was driven by demand for semiconductors manufactured with TSMC's 5nm process technology. This contributed to 23 per cent of TSMC's total wafer revenue in the quarter, while those made using its 7nm process accounted for a further 27 per cent. These advanced technologies therefore made up half of TSMC's total wafer revenue during the quarter.
It appears that today's victim of the Chocolate Factory axeman is legacy Google Voice for personal accounts. To be fair, and despite Google's apparent delight at killing off services , this one has been on the cards for a while, certainly since the company overhauled the user interface in with its "modern experience. However, some users have stuck with the legacy web version of Voice despite warnings that bits of it would stop working in In July, the company said in a not-at-all-threatening manner:.
Ukrainian police have arrested five people on suspicion of operating a ransomware gang, including a husband-and-wife team, following tipoffs from UK law enforcement. They claimed "more than 50" companies were targeted by the alleged gang, causing damage estimated at "more than one million US dollars.
In , the EU Court of Justice struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the bloc and the US in what is now known as the Schrems II ruling, which has ramifications for US cloud providers, social media sites, and providers of online tools. Lloyd's, the world's largest insurance marketplace, has contracted DXC Technology to digitise its processes as part of a multi-year effort to move on from a largely paper-based, analogue way of working.
The London insurance market accounts for 7. It is made up of more than 50 insurance firms, plus registered brokers, and a global network of 4, local cover holders. Updated Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of has, for some folk, broken Hyper-V and sent domain controllers into boot loops. Tencent CEO Pony Ma Huateng referred to his Chinese multinational company as "ordinary" and replaceable in a leaked company speech given at the end of year employee meeting.
UK tabletop wargames specialist Games Workshop has published the latest chapter in the long-running saga of how mighty IT warriors valiantly battled the intransigent forces of ERP. Some companies will go to great lengths to hide business expansion plans, but it appears AWS may have namechecked a defunct UK business in efforts to conceal a planning application for a new data centre. It's back to the drawing board for a cannabis dispensary software company after an attempt to register the trademark "Potify" attracted the ire of music streaming platform Spotify.
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