15 Internet Annoyances, and How to Fix Them, by Jared Newman, PCWorld (Feb 15)
Yes - there are many annoying things about the Web - the automatically run flash or video ads, the endless registrations, the phishing, junk pages, the can-only-view-in-IE sites. Those are the ones that bug me. The article provides fixes for these and several others.
One tip to searchers which I give too. The search engine at many sites is usually very poor - this includes government sites, and newspaper sites. Use a site search at a search engine.
"Head to your search engine of choice and precede your search with site:nameofsite.com "what you're looking for” for a surprisingly good index of what you seek. Google can even display results by date when you click “Show options.”"
Good advice.
Posted by Gwen at February 15, 2010 12:09 PM