Encyclopedia of Search Engines and Tools:
UPDATED 1/5/2017 Justin Arn
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Search like a God! |
The most important skill in today's world; a world in which data, information, and knowledge move about freely from screen to eye, from answerer to questioner, from teacher to student, from the knowing to the unknowing, via the digital medium; the most important skill one can possess is knowing how to ask the right question, and ensuring your answer is most accurately correct, and that it is delivered in the most efficient manner. Using a single search engine for all purposes and all questions, is tantamount to attempting to explore the world but never setting foot outside your own little country.
Legal Domestic Propaganda has created and maintains an Encylopedia of Search Engines specifically to encourage readers to add variety to their knowledge stream. The Encyclopedia is updated regularly but given the speed of tech creation and deprecation, the Encylopedia may never be truly complete.
Nevertheless, we hope you find utility from it.
Search Engines:
- Bing
- Exalead
- Yandex
- Gigablast
- Yahoo
- Baidu
- Startpage
- Wolfram Alpha (Meta)
- Hotbot
- DuckDuckGo (private)
- etools.ch (Meta)
- Trovando (Meta)
- Zapmeta
- Soovle
- Sputtr
- MyAllSearch
- Disconnect (Private)
- Weotta.com
- Carrot2
- Yippy (formerly Clusty)
- Iboogie (Cluster)
- MetaCrawler (MetaSearch Engine)
- Magportal
- AOL Search
- KnGine
- FAROO
- Moose
- WebListe
- Search.ch
- Creative Commons(commercially usable material)
- Spokeo
- TinEye (image)
- Core (36m open access articles)
- Base ( bigger Core)
- Qwant (French, No-tracking)
- Choosito (filter reading level, powered by bing. Create parent account for free use)
Social
- IceRocket
- Social Mention
- MuckRack (requires (login)
- Qwant
- SnapBird (Requires Login)
- SocialSearch by Google
- Twitter Advanced Search
- WhosTalkin
- Mystery.ch
Science & Academic:
- Google Scholar
- Scientillion
- Scholarpedia
- Science.Gov Alliance (Link to Topic Page)
- Bartleby Quotation Search
- WorldWide Science
- Bioline Publishing Cooperative (Academic Journals and Research)
- News Map (Visual News Directory)
- CiteSeerx & CiteSeerX Advanced Search
- Microsoft Academic Research
- BioOne
- IOP Science (Open Access over 70 Science Journals)
- PLOS One
- Sufog
- SciCurve
- Science Direct
- Stanford Library of Government Documents
- Stanford Library Digital holdings
- Korean Journal of Anesthesiology (open access - peer reviewed)
- Bodleian Library Holdings
Tor & Deep Web:
- Hidden Wiki (list of .onion directories)
- Tor Library
- Tor Dir
- TorLings
- DeepSearch
- DuckDuckGo
- The Abyss
- Tor Search
- Torch
- DeepLinks
Business Enterprise Search:
- Hoovers Comany Info (Some Free/ some $)
- Manta Small Business Search
- Biznar (Deep Web Technologies)
- Zoominfo
- Bizapedia
- Better Business Bureau
Intelligence Resources:
- Fuld
- Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services
- Deep Web Technologies
- OSINT Resource Discovery ToolKit
- Aistrian Center for Intelligence
- Cryptome
- EntityCube
- LittleSis (Index Top Pros in Gov & business
- MarketVisual (organizations and their operators)
Disowned:
- Teoma
- Search3
- Altavista
- Oingo
- Wise Nut (Korean, Business Intelligence)
- Mamma (Empresario.com)(Questionable)
- Blekko (Joined IBM Watson)
- TwinGine
- Queryster SearchX (Dead & For Sale)
- Zuula (Would Not Respond)
- WebClust (Odd Redirects)
- Vivisimo (Owned by IBM)
- Kartoo (No Response)
- Scientific Commons (Reintegrated with Creative Commons, requires CCID)
- Scirus (Science Direct, Scopus and Mendeley, Elsevier)
- Scitopia
Specialty Information:
- Supreme Court Argument Transcript
- Bios for ALL US Political figures, State or Federal, living or dead.
- Intellogist (patent search wiki page)
- WHOIS website data ICANN
- SEARCH Through the Panama Papers by Company of Country of Origin
- San Diego County Restaurant Inspections including Violations and Documentation, as do almost all California Counties. Your particular State probably does too.
- Search Air Force Project Blue Book Archive
- National Security Agency, NSA's JFK document collection.
Other Archives:
- Prussian Historical Documents via SPK digital Library