It’s hard to believe but the Big Mac is turning 50 – and McDonald’s is marking the occasion by bringing out two limited edition versions of the burger. The fast food chain is launching the Grand Big Mac, an even bigger version of the classic Big Mac that has larger patties and buns, double the cheese, the usual toppings and a total of 741 kcal, all for £3.99. Alongside this McDonald’s is also releasing the Mac Jr, a smaller version of the Big Mac that comes with just one beef patty, a slice of cheese and the sauce. It has 400kcal per serving and costs £2.19. Popular choice The news comes after McDonald’s recently announced that it would be selling healthier, low calorie meals that come in at less than 600 calories per meal.

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Steven Howells, Head of Marketing at McDonald’s UK said: “As an iconic McDonald’s product, we are proud and excited to be celebrating 50 years of the legendary Big Mac and for the first time ever in the UK, introducing the two new sizes for a limited time. “We know a lot of our customers will remember the 1974 launch of the Big Mac in the UK and have continued to enjoy the burger and pass the Big Mac love on since then.” Created by McDonald’s franchise owner Jim Delligatti and officially launched by the burger chain in 1968, the Big Mac went on to become one of the takeaways’ most popular burgers and in 2007 it was reported that a Big Mac was sold every 17 seconds in the US – or around 550 million every year. The Grand Big Mac and Mac Jr are available until 20 March.

​ + How to Switch Search Engines on Mac OS X and iOS (And Why You Should) Posted on March 19th, 2015 by If you're like most people, you search the web a lot. Google handles more than, or 3.5 billion per day, or more than 1 trillion searches every year. Your share of that may be small: if you're just an average person, you may search the web 3-5 times a day, but some of us, such as writers, may perform several dozen searches in a single day when researching articles and books.

Searching the web is free. But nothing is really free. In exchange for providing you with such a powerful tool, Google collects data about you. It creates a unique profile of you, of your interests, your medical conditions (because everyone searches Google when they have health questions), and your browsing activity, and uses this to provide carefully targeted ads.

It also tracks the websites you visit, ensuring not to miss anything you do. This is why you often see ads related to your web searches. For example, you may have a question about your pet, and use Google to find the answer. You'll end up seeing ads for pet food on various web pages. Google is the biggest advertising provider on the web, and millions of websites use Google Ads.

So by storing information about you on Google's servers, the company can know which ads are most likely to interest you. (Of course they don't know if that search about the cat was really for a friend or neighbor, in which case the ads are incorrectly targeted.) In other words, using a search engine is the same as giving away lots of private information about you, your habits, and your life. You may not want to do that.

Search Engine Options You don't have to use Google: there are a few good alternatives, but most of them store information about you, to build the same kind of profile as Google does. (They just may not be used by such as aggressive an ad network as Google's.) You could use Microsoft's Bing, for example, or Yahoo!, or the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo.

Or, in certain countries, you may want to use a search engine more adapted to your culture. (Wikipedia has, including those that are country-specific.) You may even want to use specific search engines for certain types of searches. If you're searching for a job, there are. For detailed medical information (for doctors and researchers), the search engine gives you access to specialized databases. And if you're a lawyer, you probably already know about, which provides access to statutes, laws and case opinions from 1770 to the present.

One note about. Unlike Google and other search engines, DuckDuckGo doesn't track you, and explicit content is blocked in search results by default.

As we said in, 'We want parents to know that DuckDuckGo is a search engine that may be safer for kids.' DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg explained: Most search engines collect as much personal information as they can to build profiles of their users, which can then be used to better target advertising at them across the Internet. Have you noticed the ads that follow you and your kids around the Internet? That's the direct result of this collection. If you want less information out there about your kids, use sites like DuckDuckGo that don't track you.

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Switching Search Engines in OS X While you can easily visit any search engine's website to carry out a search—just type, say, bing.com in your browser's address field—it's easiest to use either the built-in search field, or the combination search and address field that browsers such as Safari and Chrome offer. To be able to use a different search engine than the default, you'll need to manually make a change. Here's how you do this for the three main browsers in OS X. Safari: Choose Safari Preferences, and then click Search. Click the Search Engine menu and make your choice. Safari lets you use Google, Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. Firefox: Choose Firefox Preferences, and then click Search.

You can choose from a number of search engines that you can use when typing into the location bar, and set a different search engine to use in the search bar. Click Add more search engines to find Firefox add-ons that let you use other search engines. Chrome: Choose Chrome Preferences, and look in the Search section of the Settings page that displays.

You can choose from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, and AOL. If you click 'Manage search engines' you can choose other search engines as well, such as goto.com or duckduckgo.com. Additionally, if you set Google as your default search engine, you can enable voice search; in doing so, you can talk to your Mac and say 'Ok Google' to start a voice search. Switching Search Engines in iOS You can switch search engines in iOS, too. Depending on the browser you use, the settings for this might be in the Settings app or in the browser's own settings. Safari: In the Settings app, choose Safari Search Engine.

You have the same choices as with OS X: Google, Yahoo!, Bing and DuckDuckGo. Chrome: Open the Chrome app, then tap the menu button (the three dots) at the top-right of the window. Tap Settings, and then Search Engine. As with Chrome on OS X, you can choose from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, and AOL. For other iOS browsers, check the settings for each one. While most people use Google for their searches, you need to be aware of what the implications are.

Your searches are recorded, your activity tracked, and you're just another advertising target. While other search engines may track you to some extent, one in particular, DuckDuckGo, doesn't track you at all. It's easy to change which search engine you use, both on OS X and iOS, so go ahead and try out another one, and see if it's good enough for your needs. Further Reading:.

About Kirk McElhearn Kirk McElhearn writes about Macs, iPods, iTunes, books, music and more on his blog. He is co-host of the, The Next Track, and PhotoActive, and a regular contributor to The Mac Security Blog, TidBITS, and several other websites and publications. Kirk has written more than twenty books, including Take Control books about iTunes, LaunchBar, and Scrivener. Follow him on Twitter at.

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