Decentralized Technology & Currency

[pamela]

Do you know of any ‘search engines’ that are decent anymore? Brave seems to have totally lost its courage. I can find something there and 2 days later, poof. Thanks so much !

Discussion

[Gerald]

I was using Brave for a while, but never felt it was all that effective. Particularly if doing an image search. It would give you a very poor selection and then suggest you try google or bing. I eventually switched back to Duck Duck Go. I’m not convinced it’s all that great, but in my mind I’ve convinced myself it’s still better than the evils that are Google or Bing. (Fully acknowledging the hypocrisy of that statement as I still have a gmail account and use YouTube)

[Dynese]

Oh geez. I switched from DDG to Brave. Now that’s compromised too?

[maryschurr]

I’ve used several and none are perfect. Qwant, Swiss Cows, Presearch, DuckDuckGo, Brave, StartPage, and I currently use Yandex which is Russian. I’ve found it to be helpful when searching for medical related terms. I wish there were better options.

[Rick]

I’ve recently been using Perplexity AI. Not terribly impressed with the quality of results and not sure where it get’s its “training” from.

[pamela]

Thank you so much everyone ~ I’ve got some experimenting to do ?

[hugh]

You could also try Presearch, supposed to be fully hosted on independent nodes. I mostly use Brave, but if I cannot find what I’m looking for I jump over to Google.

Google usually provides the best results. Just use it with a VPN and in any browser that you’re not logged into your Google account.

No need to fear, just setup a few precautions.

[Mike]

yep same here… that’s the best strategy as of now.

[pamela]

I bumped into this today 🙂

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.

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

http://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://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.

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

http://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

refseek.com

RefSeek - Academic Search Engine

Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

[maryschurr]

Pamela, thank you for these! I had heard of Springer, but not the others.

[pamela]

You’re welcome and enjoy ~

[pamela]

Also just bumped into yandex.com and finding it thorough and comprehensive for re-searching. Thank you Russia 🙂 The irony ~

[maryschurr]

It does work well for medical and some other type searches as well. Translation is sometimes needed! 🙂

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