Friday, April 15, 2022

ALTERNATE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIONS:

I WAS REQUESTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE ALT SEARCH ENGINES I USE DAILY, THE FOLLOWING IS A SHORT LIST (there are more, but these I use most often): QWANT GIBIRU "Searx" has a page of "instances" where it appears on the web. (click the 1st link in this line to see the 'instances'.) The 'instance' I use most often is the SEARX OF BELGIUM. ALSO PLEASE NOTE:  

Learning to use modifiers to refine your search results is a big key to finding 'difficult/lost/hidden' results. While most of us know about using "quotation marks", there are a butt-load more modifiers, and you can find a lot of them HERE. 


Below this line is a series of other search functions that prove helpful when trying to find documents or other 'difficult to locate' files, articles or books etc:
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Someone posted these on Facebook, sharing here for reference and bookmarking for myself:


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.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
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 --- Further listing from a contact who asnwer a question of mine on Discord:
  1. here's a couple of libraries. I think z-lib is back up but don't know the new URL https://avalonlibrary.net/ https://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/LFLL/LFLL.htm https://beyondweird.com/conspiracies/index.html for podcasts, audiobooks and the like you could try downloading and installing https://www.slsknet.org/news/. It's been around for decades and has really niche and rare music (electronic, metal) and podcasts, audiobooks on it
  2. https://www.libgen.tw/ is great (not sure if it has audiobooks) and https://librivox.org/ is out of copyright audiobooks, kinda like gutenberg.net