Anything but Google - alternative search engines

SEARCHING ABGPhil Bradley Internet Librarian Internation 2017 Websearch Academy

ANYTHING BUT GOOGLE!

ONLINE RESOURCES• Pearltree at http://bit.ly/1axJe13

• Website http://www.philb.com/searchenginespearl.htm

TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE

• Free text

• Google, Yahoo, Bing,

• Directory

• Jasmine Directory

• Multi/Meta search

• Trovando

• Browsys

TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE

• Site/Subject specific

• BT directory, site search engines

• Hidden/Invisible web

• DeepDyve

• Social search engines

• Icerocket, Socialmention, Social Search

• “The others”

• The “dark web”

BING

BINGITON.COM

DUCKDUCKGO

DDG ‘BANGS’

DDG SHORTCUTS 1

DDG SHORTCUTS 2

HTTPS://WWW.YANDEX.COM/

ADVANCED SEARCH

SEARCH OPTIONS

& function gives you words in the

same sentence

/x gives you a word within x

of another word

MORE OPTIONS

Yandex searches for synonyms

Turn this off with the ! mark

LIMIT TO TITLE

STARTPAGE HTTPS://WWW.STARTPAGE.COM/

OSCOBO HTTPS://OSCOBO.CO.UK/

ZANRAN: GOOGLE FOR DATA

ZANRAN RESULTS PAGE

DISPLAY TABLES

WOLFRAMALPHAHTTPS://WWW.WOLFRAMALPHA.COM

MULTI/META SEARCH• Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

TROVANDO RESULTS

SOOVLE

HTTP://WWW.INSTYA.COM/

VISUAL SEARCH ENGINES DOTHOP

SPACETIME 3D HTTP://SEARCH.SPACETIME.COM/

CATEGORY BASED ENGINES• Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

BLIND SEARCH:WHICH IS BEST?

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

SIMILAR SITES HTTP://WWW.SIMILARPAGES.COM

SIMILAR SITE SEARCHHTTP://WWW.SIMILARSITESEARCH.C

OM/

NEWSMAP HTTP://WWW.NEWSMAP.JP/

NEWSLOOKUPHTTP://WWW.NEWSLOOKUP.COM/

NEWSNOWHTTP://WWW.NEWSNOW.CO.UK/H/

SEARCHING UK AND REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS

• http://www.philb.com/nationaluknewspapers.html

• http://www.philb.com/regionalenglishnewspapers.html

• http://www.philb.com/regionalenglishnewspapers2.html

• http://www.philb.com/regionalenglishnewspapers3.html

MULTIMEDIA ENGINES

• Audio Visual

• Image

• Sound

YOUTUBE

YOUTUBE FILTERS

VIMEO HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/

SOUNDS • Find Sounds http://www.findsounds.com

PODCASTS: AUDIOSEAR.CH

LISTEN NOTES HTTPS://WWW.LISTENNOTES.COM/

FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHS/VIDEOS

• https://unsplash.com/

• https://stocksnap.io/

• http://www.xstockvideo.com/

• http://www.videezy.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA• Social Mention http://www.socialmention.com/

SOCIAL SEARCHERHTTPS://WWW.SOCIAL-SEARCHER.COM/

TWITTER ADVANCED

TWITTER LISTS

TWEET BINDER

TWITTER TOOLS

http://twiangulate.com/search/

http://hashtagify.me/

http://backtweets.com/

https://snapbird.org/ https://twipho.net/

NEWS COLLATION RESOURCES

• Register, link to your social media accounts and pull in data based on what your contacts are talking about.

FLIPBOARD

NEWS CURATION VIA THE WEB

DIGG DAILY DIGEST

SCOOP.IT

NUZZEL HTTP://NUZZEL.COM/PHILBRADLEY

SEARCHING FACEBOOK

SEARCH IS BACK

INTELTECHNIQUESHTTPS://INTELTECHNIQUES.COM/INTEL/OSINT/FACEBOOK.HT

ML

LINKEDIN

DIIGO

PINTEREST

BROWSER TOOLS

BOOKOLIO

ALL IN ONE

ADDING EDITING AND CHANGING SEARCH ENGINES IN THE CHROME SETTINGS

• Click on the Chrome menu

• Select settings, go to ‘search’ section

• Click ‘manage search engines’

• Under ‘other search engines’ you can

• Add a search engine

• Edit a search engine

• Delete a search engine

• Set a default search engine

• Click Done

SOME INTERESTING ENGINES

MILLION SHORT HTTP://GB.MILLIONSHORT.COM/

WORLDOMETERS.INFO

NUMBERQUOTES.COM

BENOSEY

SPARRHO.COM

AND FINALLY...• Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php

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