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Some search-engines you probably never heard of
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
A big tip-of-the-hat to Lucas Machias to shared this information with me.
If you aren't paying for it, YOU are the product. Always.
ReplyDeleteThe only question that remains is how these alternative search engines are using YOU to fund themselves.
If you think they are altruistic and doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, then bless your heart!
Privacy is dead to Google (and has been for a while). I've been on a "de-googling" kick recently. One of the hardest to switch has been the search engine itself. I've tried Bing and DuckDuckGo, both of which have been disappointing. I'll take the same query and paste it into Google and find exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for sharing those search engines, I'm interested in checking them out.
ReplyDeleteThere's a big movement to push towards "FOSS" (Free and Open-Source Software). Self hosting these FOSS apps has been a great alternative to apps offered by Google. I hope more people join the movement and take some power away from these companies.
I used Brave when google can't find it and I know it's out there.
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