I know what the speed of light is... what's the speed of dark?
Never try to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time, and annoys the pig.

For Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista.
With solutions for Linux.

Commercial search engines such as Google and Yahoo are superb tools for finding things on the Internet as long as the things you're looking for are fairly easy to find... and they aren't likely to bring you to the attention of your government.

Personal Web Search offers a number of enhancements in searching the Internet. It will let you direct your searches to specific areas of the web. It will return pages without the questionable benefits of ranking, which commercial search engines impose on their results to favor commercial pages. It will provide you with up to the minute searches of the web, rather than searching cached pages which can be days or weeks old. It will let you search without having to worry about your research for the murder mystery you're writing being misinterpreted as a conspiracy to end civilization as we know it.

Intel

No more difficult to use than a web-based search engine, Personal Web Search will give you unprecedented control over your searches, and help you find things on the web you never would have known existed.

This software is available for electronic delivery and on CD-ROM.

Personal Web Search

Eagles don't flock.

  • Give you an unprecedented degree of control over where you search.
  • Help prevent you from being deluged by search results.
  • Provide you with up-to-the microsecond results — Personal Web Search searches the web as it is, not as it was last week or last month when it was most recently spidered.
  • Give you access to pages which commercial search engines rank so low as to make them effectively un-findable.
  • Defend your privacy.
  • Allow you to save your searches to disk, so you can peruse their results over multiple sessions.

Should you wish to contact us about this application, please send us some e-mail.

This application can be registered as shareware or bookware. See the
fine print section, below, for details of these registration options.

SHAREWARE

PERSONAL WEB SEARCH COSTS
29.99
(PLUS APPLICABLE SHIPPING)
SEE OUR SECURE SERVER TO ORDER.
OTHER ORDERING OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE.

BOOKWARE

darkmatter - the universe just wouldn't be the same without it

Buy and read Steven William Rimmer's novel Darkmatter and you'll have a fully-functional, registered copy of Personal Web Search. See our secure server page and other ordering options.

CLICK HERE WHILE YOUR FILE IS DOWNLOADING
The best things in life aren't things.

Downloading and installation of this software: You can ensure yourself of a problem-free installation by following our downloading and installation instructions. Note that this will open a new browser window — you will not lose your current page.

The downloadable installer can be used to install either an evaluation copy or a fully-functional registered copy of this application. A dialog will appear during the installation procedure to accept your name and registration code — if you wish to install this software for evaluation, click on Evaluate in this dialog.

Important: You might see a warning during download or installation of these installers concerning possible "malicious code." These messages are generated by Windows if you attempt to download and install most non-Microsoft software. They can be safely ignored.

Vista users: Vista's internal security may cause it to display a window that says "this program might not have installed correctly" after you run a downloaded installer for non-Microsoft software. You can click on "installed correctly" if it appears, and ignore the warning.

The current Alchemy Mindworks installation CD-ROM ships with Personal Web Search 2.0a patch 8.

Click on one of the following links to download Personal Web Search 2.0a patch 12. This file is 7,050,032 bytes in length.

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Alchemy Mindworks FTP 1: PWSR20.EXE.
Alchemy Mindworks FTP 2: PWSR20.EXE.
Alchemy Mindworks FTP 3: PWSR20.EXE.

Alchemy Mindworks' applications won't install spyware, malware or other invasions of your privacy, and we're extremely careful about virus scans. Learn more about the security of our downloaded installers.

I didn't do it and I'll never do it again.

Thanks to everyone who has asked for a logo graphic for Personal Web Search. If you'd like a graphic link at your page for Personal Web Search, please download this banner.

(We ask that you not reference this graphic from the mindworkshop.com server, as the file name may change.)

There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.

The HTML to add it to your page is:

<a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/search.html">
<img border=0 vspace=20 hspace=20 src="searchweb.gif"
alt="Personal Web Search by Alchemy Mindworks"></a>



FINE PRINT

Personal Web Search can be registered either as bookware or as conventional shareware. Should you be unfamiliar with the former, here's the rub.

The bookware registration fee for Personal Web Search is to buy and read Steven William Rimmer's novel Darkmatter. Darkmatter is available at selected bookshops, and directly through Alchemy Mindworks. A bookware registration of Personal Web Search will get you a fully functional copy of the software. Please note, however:

Alchemy Mindworks' user database does not keep track of book orders. As such, if you have cause to re-install a bookware copy of this software in the future — because you change computers, for example, or because you reformat your hard drive — you will need the book. We cannot provide replacement bookware codes for this application under any circumstances, even if you claim that the spirit of King Tut Ankh Amon borrowed the book and you have video of the event to prove it. Don't ask. Be sure to hang onto your copy of Darkmatter, and all will be well.

Because in registering this application as bookware you're really just buying a book, you will not be e-mailed a registration code for Personal Web Search when we confirm your order. You'll need to wait for the book to arrive to register your software.

Registering this version of Personal Web Search as bookware will entitle you to download any additional releases and patches in the 2.0 series at no cost. The bookware version will not be upgradable to future major releases, should we substantially expand Personal Web Search one day. For practical purposes, this probably isn't something you need to be greatly concerned about.

Alternately — should you not wish to read the book — you can register Personal Web Search as conventional shareware for $29.99 (US) — plus applicable shipping if you'd like a copy sent to you on CD-ROM.

Should you lose your registration code for Personal Web Search at some time in the future, or need to reinstall it, you will be able to request a replacement code through the Lost Registration Code Robot at our web page. If King Tut shows up to swipe your books, he may deplete your library, but he won't affect your use of Personal Web Search.

You will receive a registration code for Personal Web Search when we confirm your order by e-mail, enabling you to register a downloaded copy of the application immediately.

Should we release a more powerful version of Personal Web Search in the future, you will be able to upgrade to it at no cost or at a reduced price. Note, however, that we do not have plans to do so as of this writing.

Personal Web Search™ is a trademark of Alchemy Mindworks Corporation.

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