Search notes:
Search Engines
Perplexity is somewhat similar to
ChatGPT, but also provides citations, i. e. links to the source of the information.
It also comes with
</> Bird SQL which is its Twitter search feature.
Metaphor is powered by a model using a form of self-supervised learning, the same paradigm behind models like Stable Diffusion and GPT-3
DuckDuckGo: Die Suchmaschine, die Sie nicht verfolgt.
eTools: the transparent Metasearch Engine from Switzerland, queries Ask,
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, Bing, DuckDuckGo,
Exalead, Fastbot,
Findx, Google,
Mojeek,
Moose,
Search,
Tiger, Wikipedia, Yahoo and Yandex in parallel
Qwant: does not store cookies, as well.
dogpile returns results from other search engines including Google and Yahoo.
Yandex (Яндекс), the most popular search engine in Russia (but is registered in the Netherlands).
Swisscows: Family friendly, no tracking, no data keeping.
tipz.io, sometimes(?) with cyrillic results.
CC Search to find works that are under a
creative commons license.
metager is a
meta search engine that queries up to 50 other search engines. The result set does not rank higher what is clicked often.
Unsplash: Photos for everyone (freely usable images)
Wallpaper Tab: Sleek, intuitive, and powerful search engine for everyone. - Search the web for sites, images, videos, news & more…
symbolhound.com helps programmers to search for special characters (such as
!~ etc).
Goobe, a useful
programmer search.
ekoru: search to save our oceans.
KidRex: Safe search for Kids, by Kids.
Search engines that claim to search privately etc.:
With
Lilo, your searches finance social and environmental projects without any cost.
Everythingwhat: Have you found yourself in situation when you have a question in mind and want a quick, to-the-point answer to it?
oceanhero recovers one plastic bottle for every five searches you do.
citeseerX: an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine
SlideShare: presentations, infographics, documents etc.
gyphy: apparently: animated gifs.
ecosia.org is like any other search engine and uses their profits to plant trees.
W3Catalog was an early search engine (released 1993).
Google and Bing search modifiers
| search in | Google | Bing | |
| Domain contains | site:… | site:… | |
| Country is equal to | &cr=countryXX | loc:XX | XX = two letter abbreviation, for example CH = Switzerland |
| Language is equal to | &lr=lang_xx | lang:xx | xx = letter abbreviation, for example de = german |
| Date published | &tbs=qgr:x | &tbs=qgr:x | for example x = h for hour |
| Title contains | title:… | title:… | |
| Anchor contains | inanchor:… | inanchor:… | |
| Body contains | intext:… | intext:… | |
| Filetype | filetype:xxx | filetype:xxx | xxx for example pdf |
In order to negate a specification, it needs to be prefixed with a - (-site:bla.xy)
Alternatives can be formulated with parentheses and the OR keyword: ( "foo bar" OR site:foo.ab ).
See also
advangle.com: it helps build complex web search queries.