Bunch of powerful search sites (other than Google)

[Muse]

Edit: I took this info from a friend's sharing a post from a friend on facebook, therefore they were linked through Facebook. I changed some of those to hit the sites directly (first 4 or so... then some more).

FYI: Several of these sites are not secure, take note.
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Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

https://www.refseek.com/ - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

https://www.worldcat.org/ - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com/ - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

http://repec.org/ - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

https://www.science.gov/ is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

http://www.pdfdrive.com/ is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

https://www.base-search.net/ is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

 

[SKORPI0]

What's with the facebook linK?

 

[Muse]

What's with the facebook linK?

I don't understand. How is there a facebook link?

Edit: Oh, I see that when you open these it goes through Facebook somehow. I don't know why, it wouldn't appear to be the case. However, it probably has to do with this fact: I got an email from a Facebook "friend" in which he shared a post by a person who I assume is his facebook friend. I hit that, saw the post and I thought it so interesting that I copied it and posted it in the OP of this thread. I know, it may not be "proper," I don't know the ins and outs, but the information itself looked great and thought it would likely be useful to a lot of people here. Is it going to cause problems? If so, please explain. Apologies for any difficulties... Do you need to have a Facebook account to access the links?

Edit2: I changed several of the links to go straight to the sites, eliminating the routing through Facebook FWIW. Also, note that several of the sites are NOT secure.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Onliest thing wors'n talkin' bout the Goo is talkin 'bout the Book talkin' 'bout the Goo.

Duck the Goo. Get quacked.

 

[lxskllr]

There's a good chance those are available through duckduckgo's !bangs.

 

[pete6032]

Project Gutenberg is also another source for free online books.

 

[Torn Mind]

Altavista, Yahoo....

Oh wait, I am about 20 years behind the times.

 

[SKORPI0]

Top 8 Best Search Engines (of 2022) - Rapid Blog

Search Engines allow us to filter the tons of information available on the internet and get the most accurate results And while most people don't pay too much attention to search engines, they immensely contribute to the accuracy of results and the experience you enjoy while scouring through the...

rapidapi.com

 

[Muse]

There's a good chance those are available through duckduckgo's !bangs.

That's a good one. I experimented a bit with duckduckgo a few years ago, have been using Google, just changed my Chrome SE to DDG and am now checking out !Bangs. That's a great feature. I do some stuff like that in my private search engine which is backed by my private data. In fact, I think I'm going to do something similar in my engine. Probably use a period instead of ! because it's way easier to key. My first argument (what appears after the ! or . will be the table I want to search, followed by my search argument(s).

I figure I'm going to get close and personal with !Bangs. This thread is paying off, at least for me. Hope I haven't offended anyone...

I'm studying this:

20 DuckDuckGo Bangs to Improve Your DuckDuckGo Search Experience - TechPP

Are you a DuckDuckGo user? Check out these DuckDuckGo !bangs or DuckDuckGo Bang shortcuts to search the web quickly.

techpp.com

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Altavista, Yahoo....

Oh wait, I am about 20 years behind the times.

Are you? Ask Jeeves to be sure.

 

[nakedfrog]

I recently used http://academia.edu to access some papers, I'll have to keep these other ones in mind next time I'm doing my own research.

 

[Muse]

There's a good chance those are available through duckduckgo's !bangs.

So, I changed my search engine today from Google to Duckduckgo in Chrome. One feature of Chrome I use quite a bit is the context menu (right click) after highlighting text and selecting search <search engine> <selected text>. I've had very good experience using that when Google was my SE, but with DDG it doesn't seem to be working out. I'm not finding out WTH it is, whereas Google homes right in on it. Dang.

 

[Torn Mind]

My sister informed me two or three years ago Bing was a good tool for finding explicit content.

 

[lxskllr]

So, I changed my search engine today from Google to Duckduckgo in Chrome. One feature of Chrome I use quite a bit is the context menu (right click) after highlighting text and selecting search <search engine> <selected text>. I've had very good experience using that when Google was my SE, but with DDG it doesn't seem to be working out. I'm not finding out WTH it is, whereas Google homes right in on it. Dang.

Should work as usual. It does in firefox. I think the way the context menu works, is the search provider is a browser variable, and the name gets inserted into the context menu based on your default search provider, and then gets redirected to your chosen search.

edit:
or maybe I'm misreading, and you aren't happy with the search results. Could be. DDG doesn't track you out the ass, so your searches will be less relevant than google's. They also just aren't quite as good as google. I always find what I need. I haven't used anything else for the last ~10 years.

 

[pete6032]

My sister informed me two or three years ago Bing was a good tool for finding explicit content.

Microsoft Bing Rewards are great if you started the program while they were giving out Amazon gift cards. I've gotten over $100 in gift cards for spending a few minutes each day clicking around on Bing. Newer accounts don't get the option of converting points to Amazon gift cards, but you can get Starbucks, AMC, Microsoft Store, etc.