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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.
DeleteI'll give Brave a try, thanks
DeleteI like to use Startpage.
DeleteIt's not US so it can't be pressured by the .gov or required to lie about what they collect.
Jonathan
Personal privacy is dead, period. All of your devices spy on you, whether they admit it or not. That includes your car, phone, and any electronic device that connects to the internet.
ReplyDeleteOutdoors? Sometime, take a look and see how many cameras are mounted on traffic signal posts, or in businesses. Ever notice that when something happens there is video posted of it within hours on the news?
And then there are the cops. Drones, Stingray cell phone eavesdroppers, license plate readers, etc.
Face it, personal privacy is dead and has been for some time. We live in the panopticon and there is no getting out.
Agree with Neon... sigh
ReplyDeleteI came across something kind of related that might be of interest to others. This is a book, OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information.
ReplyDeleteI only found it a week or so, and was interested enough to spend the $40 for the ebook. So far, I think it was worth it.
If you're into privacy and wanting to look at various things without people collecting records of what you're searching for etc, this book might be useful. It seems to be written by some LE computer security people but I was impressed that the book has significant content aimed at using a "sterile" virtual machine to conduct your searches, robust enough to stand up (the authors say) even in a legal proceeding. I just started going through some of the later chapters on how to access various search engines, social media etc anonymously or privately but worth a look if this is the kind of thing that interests you.
I've used virtual machines before, mostly just to learn a little more about privacy etc. Not being a private investigator or the like, I'm not going to go as hardcore as what the book content says to sterilize even the host machine that's running the virtual machine. But nice to have the reference info tucked away in a need were to ever arise.
https://inteltechniques.com/book1.html
Tom from East Tennessee
A book you might enjoy, if you can find one at the library (I can’t afford even a used copy!) is “Soil, grass, cancer”. Maybe one of those engines can find a copy.
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