Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
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.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
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
https://archive.is/ similar to the waybackmachine.
Use yandex.com or baidu.com for cross reference against Google etc
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Great list which I’ll keep for reference.
I usually use Yandex.
Not a search engine but libgen.is remains a fantastic source of texts of various kinds. Their article search also still works but Sci-Hub has been broken for quite a while now.
Don’t we all love a good simple, striking example of search engine censorship.
Take a look at google’s suggestions! I didn’t expect to get the same ones as Chudov, but I did!
Google is not showing much intelligence there, either
Wondering about that recent assassination attempt on Trump?
Wasn’t there someone else in an assassination attempt? Ah well, must be wrong. Didn’t happen!
PatB
30 July 2024 06:02
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I haven’t tried it yet, but “Perplixity” may be somewhat better. https://www.perplexity.ai/
Google is mis/dis information for anything slightly political. Want to find where to buy a wigit? Google is great.
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Perplexity is quite good, it creates short essays with footnotes and suggested follow-up questions to expand on a topic. Very unlike the archetypal search engine results, but there may be inbuilt biases I haven’t picked up yet. I explored the films of Gaspar Noe very fruitfully, for example, and other than passing references to controversy (specifically relating to Irreversible ) there was no preachy b.s.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
