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[hemmerling] Search
Major Search Engines
- Google, Google Uncensored #1.
- As of 2024-04, there is now just 1 single result page
. You have to click on “More results” button at the bottom of the page to get more results. - In the past 20y, search engines results were organized in result pages:
- If you browsed one page, you loaded another page.
- Advantage: If you browsed more than 1 page, you were able to “remember” where you were in the browsing, i.e. you stopped on page 2, and then you could restart on page 2 next day
- Google Search Help "Refine web searches", with commands.
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- Google - Advanced Search for Images → add ”&tbm=isch&” after first search.
- Search for images by “photo upload” & “photo URL reference” is just available with desktop browsers ( Firefox, Chrome,.. ), not by smartphone browesers ( Firefox, Chrome,.. ).
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- Google - Advanced Search for Videos → add “tbm=vid&” after first search.
Google URL Submission, Google Search Console - “To submit a URL to the Google index, either submit a sitemap or use the Fetch as Google tool”.-
- Google News Publisher Center, to publish sitemaps and sitemap_index files.
- Free ( Online ) tools:
- XML-sitemaps.com. The free serice has a limit of 500 pages to be crawled.
- “Maximum 500 pages Limit Exceeded”.
- “Use our PRO Sitemaps service to maintain your sitemap (free 500 pages account)”.
- The commercial Slickplan.com.
- The commercial Screamingfrog.com.
- The commercial Dynomapper.com.
- AOL Search - “Enhanced by Google”.
- With Google, you may search for phone number, e.g. “05112347019”.
- YouTube #2.
- Bing.
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- Yandex, Russia.
- With Yandex, you may search for phone number, e.g. “05112347019”.
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Meta Search Engines
- eTools.ch - The Transparent Metasearch Engine from Switzerland - Relevant in 2023.
- Excite, sourced by Google, Yahoo, Bing.
- HotBot, sourced by Yahoo, LyGo, MSN.
- iZito Deutschland, sourced by Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, YouTube, Wikipedia, Entireweb,...
- MetaGer - “Die MetaSuche über deutschsprachige Suchmaschinen”. Relevant in 2023.
- Multimeta - “Die Metasuchmaschine - parallele Metasuche in den größten internationalen und deutschen Suchmaschinen”.
- Search.info - Relevant in 2023.
- Tixuma - sourced by Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.
Search Engines
International
- Arnetminer - “Search and mining of academic social networks”, “Aims to provide comprehensive search and mining services for researcher social networks”.
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- Baidu, China.
- CiteSeer - “Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine”.
- Comp Wisdom - “Meaningful results bit by bit”, “A new search engine to make your search for useful information on computers and the Internet easier. We have thousands of relevant results in our database relating to IT”.
- cRANKy - “The world’s first age-relevant search engine”.
- DuckDuckGo - Also recommended by TOR network ( sites ).
- Ebookee - “eBooks Search Engine!”.
- The “European” French search engine Qwant, also in German language. As of 2014-03, it is based on the Bing database.
- IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research - “largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet”.
- Komerca.tv - “Ihre redaktionelle Suchmaschine für aussagefähige Online-Videos - Information”.
- Octopart - “A search engine for electronic parts, electronic components, datasheets”.
- OpenGrey - “System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents. Examples of grey (gray) literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature”.
- PdfChaser.com - Your favourite pdf search engine”.
- PDF Search Engine - “PDF Search Engine do not host any PDF file”.
- Quihoo.
- Quihoo 360.CN So - “Qihoo is China’s second biggest search engine”.
- Sogou, China.
- Swisscows, Switzerland.
- Toodoc - “Free PDF Books, PDF Search Engine”.
- Topsy - “Real-time search for the social web”.
Germany
- Abacho, Germany.
- BlueKiwi, Germany.
- fastbot>>, Germany.
- Fireball, Germany.
- ingenieur.de by VDI.
- Websuche - just commercial URL Submission ( “Webseite anmelden” ).
- Witch - die phonetische Suchhexe, with cataloge.
- Wortwolke - “semantische Suche für das deutschsprachige Internet”.
France
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- SFR - “avec Google”.
Database for Requests and Complains about Online Material
- Lumen - “The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals”.
Image / Photo Search
Reverse Search
- Google.
- Google - Search for images - Works with Desktop PC browsers. Does not work on Smartphone browsers .
- Digital Inspiration - Tech Guides, Software Tutorials, and Google "Reverse Image Search" ( “CTRLQ” ).
- “With Reverse Image Search by Google, you can quickly discover visually similar photos from around the web”.
- Just image upload ( “Upload from your Photo Library, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or take a new picture with your phone’s camera” ), no reverse search by naming the URL.
- “Google’s ‘search by image’ feature is only available for desktop computers and not on mobile devices and tablets. Thus, if a friend has sent you an image on WhatsApp or Facebook that you’d like to verify, you’ll have to first tranfer the photograph to a desktop and then perform a reverse search”.
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- “Searched over 38.6 billion images”.
- “If you expected to find matches, TinEye may not have crawled the website or page where your image appears. TinEye constantly crawls the web and adds tens of millions of new images to the TinEye index every month... TinEye finds exact and altered copies of images by looking at the actual pixels, but it doesn't know what the image represents (a chair, a waterfall, etc.)”.
- Yandex - Search for Images - With reverse search option ( by the black photocamera symbol ).
Meta Services for Reverse Search
No Reverse Search
- Creative Commons - Image Search - “Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse”.
- Yahoo Images Search - “Powered by Bing”.
Search Engine to find the most important Blogs of your Market Niche
- BuzzSumo - Select “Content Research / Most Shared”.
- “Find the Most Shared Content and Key Influencers”.
- “Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.Find the key influencers to promote your content”.
- Sam Ovens ( see Marketing and Self-Marketing ) suggested it in 2018-07 to find the most important blogs of your market niche, as self-employed ( consultant )!
- “View ZZZ more results for “XXX” with BuzzSumo Pro!”.
- “You’ve Reached Your Daily Limit. To continue searching, please log in or start a free trial. If you'd prefer not to upgrade at the end of the trial, you can switch to our limited free version”.
Search Engines to find Hardware Product Suppliers
- The free service Ensun - The most advanced AI-based supplier sourcing tool in the world.
- The commercial service Matchory - Supplier Discovery based on AI.
Directories
- AllesKlar - “Der größte deutsche Webkatalog”.
- Bellnet - “Der große deutschsprachige Webkatalog”.
- DMOZ - The Directory of the Web ( formerly: Open Directory ).
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- Suchnase - “Webverzeichnis, Webkatalog”.
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- Themenweb ( The good old Portal & Link Directory Concept?! ).
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- Web24 - ”... suchen · klicken · finden!,..................Webverzeichnis”.
- Webrings.
Search for People
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- But doesn't know about me, Rolf Hemmerling: WITHWE.INFO - Search for "hemmerling".
Semantic Web
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- Sindice - The semantic web index "Submit Your Data" - “Share your Web Data presence with Sindice”.
Archives for Websites
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- Search for “collection:wide00002” to find webwide crawldata.
- archive.is, archive.today, archive.fo, archive.vn - “your personal Wayback Machine!”, “My url is alive and I want to archive its content”, “I want to search the archive for saved snapshots”.
- Memento Project "Time Travel" - “Find Mementos in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, GitHub and many more!”.
- Wikiwix [archive], France - “Vous pourrez alors proposer une version archivée de tous les liens externes afin de garantir à vos visiteurs une navigation agréable. Ce service est déjà utilisé sur les projets wikipedia français et anglais par la wikimedia fondation pour archiver tous les liens externes situés au bas des articles”.
Phone Directories, Directories for Commercial Services
- DeTeMedien.
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- golocal - “gemeinsam besser finden”.
People
Search Services for your own Homepage
Resources
- Alexandria - NextGen search engine.
- Blog article Ian Turner, Yahoo! Search blog - "Search, with a little help from your friends", 2005-06-30 → “Social Search”.
Appropriate OpenDirectory Directory Pages
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