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We all send search queries through Google or a similar search engine, but few of us stop to think about how we can get smarter searches. These ten great tips show you how to make the most of your web searching and they are all free and easy to do!

1: Search your Firefox history from the address bar
To perform a quick search of your web history, type the keywords into the address bar to get a list of sites you’ve visited with those words in the title or URL. ... read more »

If you're a fan of the speedy Google Chrome browser you'll be interested to know that Google's added a clever bookmark syncing tool to the browser which operates just like Xmarks (Foxmarks). If you download the beta of Google Chrome 4, either as a version upgrade from Chrome or a new install, you'll get an option in your "wrench" menu to synchronize bookmarks, enabled through your Google account.

Open-source browser Firefox is expected to pass the billion download mark in the next 24 hours - will it be you who downloads the latest 3.5 release?

The milestone includes downloads of all versions of the web software since its first release in 2004. Last year, the Mozilla Foundation set a new Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours when the third version of Firefox was downloaded more than eight million times. The latest figures suggest that Firefox now has nearly one third of the browser market worldwide, at 31 per cent, although stats vary wildy between countries. ... read more »

The Foxmarks bookmark syncing addon is a PCAnswers favourite and it's now available for Internet Explorer and Safari for the PC. Head on over to www.foxmarks.com to download it.

If you're not familiar with Foxmarks it's a brilliant way of syncing all your browser bookmarks between computers. You simply create an account, install the addon for each PC you use and because the bookmarks are stored online it can sync with all your machines, you just to tell it which machine to use as the one you want to sync with and voila!