Alternative Search Engines
To Find the Answers You Need
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As we have seen over the last few years, all mainstream search engines have become worthless.
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Yandex
DuckDuckGo
They censor, manipulate, and hide search results. To circumvent this evil, I’ve compiled a list to share some of the different engines I use in my research. While I haven’t test all, I’ve used many of the ones listed below. As I come across new sources for knowledge, I’ll update the list accordingly.
To help make the list easier to view, I've broken it down into sections:
Alternative Internet Search: Mainstream replacements.
BigPharma Related: Payments to Doctors from BigPharma, Documents and other medical related issues.
Research Search Sites: Research papers, journals, academic information.
Archive Searches: Archive searches for pages that go missing.
Organizations & People Search: Connections, political figures and networks.
Internet Searches
Freespoke: A newcomer to the search world.
BoardReader: searches community boards
Brave Search: a private search engine.
Disconnect: a non-tracking search engine.
Freespoke: an uncensored search engine.
Mojeek: a growing independent search engine which does not track you.
Presearch: a Decentralized Search Engine. Search privately, receive better results.
Search Encrypt: a privacy based search engine.
Searx: a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
StartPage: search the web without tracking, profiling, or a search history.
Swisscows: an anonymous search engine.
BigPharma Related
Dollars for Docs: How Industry Dollars Reached Your Doctors. Last update was October 17, 2019.
Open Payments: The Open Payments Search Tool is used to search payments made by drug and medical device companies to physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses and teaching hospitals. Data displayed on the Open Payments Search Tool is from January, 2015 through December, 2021
PubChem, National Library of Medicine: Quickly find chemical information from authoritative sources
Research Search Sites
Base Search: one of the most powerful search engines for academic research texts. More than 100 million scientific articles, 70% of which are free.
Bioline International: a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.
PDF Drive: the largest website for free download of PDF books. Claim more than 225 million titles.
RefSeek: a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
RePEc, Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data are then used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it.
Science.gov: searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results
Springer Link: providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings.
WorldCat: search the content of 20,000 global libraries.
Archive Searches
Archived Web, search the web cache to view archived pages of any website.
Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Explore more than 734 billion web pages saved over time.
UK Web Archive (UKWA) collects millions of websites each year, preserving them for future generations. Use this site to discover old or obsolete versions of UK websites, search the text of the websites and browse websites curated on different topics and themes.
Organizations & People Search
Discover the Networks, An Online Database of the Left and its Agendas.
GlobalResearch, the center for research on Globalization.
GTD — Global Terrorism Database, is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2020.
OnTheIssues, every political leader on every issue.
OpenGovWA, Open government data in Washington State
Open Secrets, Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
These are a great list of sites that I have only just come across, thank you . Another one similar to refseek is https://digr.co . It's also adfree .