[hemmerling] Search 1/2 - Online Search Services

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• Search 2/2 - AI Online Services and Browser & Apps with AI services.

1. Google, Google Uncensored #1.
   • Google - Advanced Search.
   • 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.
   • Google - Search for images, Google - Search for images.
     • Google - Advanced Search for Images → add ”&tbm=isch&” after first search.
     • Search for images by “photo upload” & “photo URL reference” was for many just available with desktop browsers ( Firefox, Chrome,.. ). Since 2025, it is also available by smartphone browsers ( Firefox, Chrome,.. ) .
     • Since 2025 rejection of photos with some slight harmless non-porn nudity ( PG12 rated photos ): “Unable to process this search. This search can't be processed due to content guidelines. Please try a different image or keywords” .
   • Google - Search for videos.
     • Google - Advanced Search for Videos → add “tbm=vid&” after first search.
   • Google Squared.
   • 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 Search console Help "Manage your sitemaps. Build and submit a sitemap".
     • Google Search console Help "Ask Google to recrawl your URLs".
   • Google Search Console "Mobile-Friendly Test".
     • Example: Google Search Console "Mobile-Friendly Test for "http://hemmerling.free.fr/".
   • Google News Publisher Center, to publish sitemaps and sitemap_index files.
     • Sitemaps.org.
     • StatCounter Insights. Free Insights & Training in SEO, Web & Social Media "How to Create a Sitemap".
     • 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.
   • Vodaphone Live ( Arcor / Nexgo / GermanyNet ).
   • WEB.DE Suche.
   • With Google, you may search for phone number, e.g. “05112347019”.
2. YouTube #2.
3. Bing.
4. Yahoo!, US.Yahoo!, DE.Yahoo!.
   • US.Yahoo! - Search, DE.Yahoo! - Search.
   • AOL Search - “AOL ist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie”.
   • Search.
     • Yahoo Search
     • Yahoo Search ( altavista ) ( AltaVista ) - Text-only title page .
5. Yandex, Russia.
   • With Yandex, you may search for phone number, e.g. “05112347019”.
   • EN.Wikipedia "Yandex", DE.Wikipedia "Yandex".

1. European Search Perspective
   1. Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees, Germany #1.
      • EN.Wikipedia "Ecosia", DE.Wikipedia "Ecosia".
   2. Quant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product, France #2 - There is no option to create an account, for saving bookmarks .
      • EN.Wikipedia "Qwant", DE.Wikipedia "Qwant".
2. Fireball, Germany.
   • DE.Wikipedia "Fireball (Suchmaschine)".
3. GOOD Search.
   • GOOD Search "Radikaler Schritt: GOOD ist ab sofort werbefrei und komplett unabhängig von Big-Tech", 2024-11.
4. Startpage - The world’s most private search engine, Netherlands #3 - There is no option to create an account, for saving bookmarks .
   • EN.Wikipedia "Startpage", DE.Wikipedia "Startpage".
5. Swisscows, Switzerland.

1. Dogpile Web Search.
2. eTools.ch - The Transparent Metasearch Engine from Switzerland - Relevant in 2025.
3. Excite, sourced by Google, Yahoo, Bing.
4. HotBot, sourced by Yahoo, LyGo, MSN, ChatGPT - “AI Chat, Ask AI Questions for Expert Bot Assistance”.
5. MetaCrawler.com.
6. Just-commercial service MetaGer .
   • MetaGer "Weitere Infos / Suchmaschinen":
     1. Mojeek, UK - Web & images.
     2. Brave, USA - Web & images & news.
     3. Serper, Germany ( = MetaGer, Google index ) - Web & images & news.
     4. Pixabay, Germany - Images.
     5. OneNewsPage, UK & OneNewsPage Deutschland - News.
     6. Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) Open Research - Science.
     7. BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) - Science.
   • MetaGer - Tips.
   • MetaGer "Key" - “For each ad-free web search on MetaGer with default settings you will be charged 1 token. You can top up your key with one of these token packages at any time”.
   • heise "Fast 30 Jahre MetaGer: Über die Geschichte und aktuelle Entwicklungen", 2024-09.
   • EN.Wikipedia "MetaGer", DE.Wikipedia "MetaGer".

1. Ask.com, DE.Ask.com.
   • EN.Wikipedia "Ask.com", DE.Wikipedia "Ask.com".
2. Baidu, China.
   • Baidu in English - Search the website Baidu in English - As of 2025-10, it doesn't work as promised .
3. CiteSeer - “Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine”.
4. Direct Hit.
5. DuckDuckGo - Also recommended by TOR network ( sites ).
   • Google Play "DuckDuckGo Private Browser".
6. IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research - “largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet”.
7. Lycos, Lycos.DE, Lycos.FR.
8. Octopart - “A search engine for electronic parts, electronic components, datasheets”.
9. OpenGrey
   • Download, no interactive web interface ( “You can download the OpenGrey MySQL file from the DANS EASY Archive” ).
   • “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”.
10. Quihoo.
    • Quihoo 360.CN So - “Qihoo is China’s second biggest search engine”.
    • EN.Wikipedia "Qihoo 360Qihoo 360".
11. Search.com - “Search GPT. Free Chat GPT Alternative”.
12. SHODAN - Computer Search Engine.
13. Sogou, China.
14. Wikiwix - The ultimate Wikipedia articles search engine.

1. fastbot>>, Germany.
2. Heise Register.
3. ingenieur.de by VDI.
4. Websuche - “Websuche: Hohe Qualität durch geprüfte Ergebnisse”. Just commercial URL Submission ( “Webseite anmelden” ) .

• Yahoo! France.

• 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”.

• Bing - Visual 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”.
• TinEye Reverse Image Search.
  • “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 ).

• Google Play "Photo Sherlock - Reverse Image Search".
• Google Play, PALM TEAM "Search By Image".

• Creative Commons - Image Search - “Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse”.
• Flickr.
• Picsearch.
• Pinterest Visual Search Tool.
• Yahoo Images Search - “Powered by Bing”.

• 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” .

• The free service Ensun - The most advanced AI-based supplier sourcing tool in the world.
• The commercial service Matchory - Supplier Discovery based on AI.

• AllesKlar - “Der größte deutsche Webkatalog”.
• Bellnet - “Der große deutschsprachige Webkatalog”.
• The directory Enterprise Open Source Directory - Enterprise Ready Open Source.
• Meinestadt.de.
• DMOZ - The Directory of the Web ( formerly: Open Directory ).
  • OpenDirectory, OpenDirectory.DE.
    • Open Directory Project - How to suggest a site to the Open Directory.
  • The Archive of dmoz.org.
  • EN.Wikipedia: "DMOZ", DE.Wikipedia: "DMOZ".
• Google Directory.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Google Directory".
• Yahoo! Directory.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Yahoo! Directory".
• Links2go Tagged Directory.
• trusted directory.
• Suchnase - “Webverzeichnis, Webkatalog”.
• Sharelook Internet Services GmbH.
  • Sharelook.de, Sharelook.fr, Sharelook.Co.UK.
  • Sharelook.de "Hannover".
• Themenweb ( The good old Portal & Link Directory Concept ?! ).
  • shuccle AG.
    • firmenpresse "shuccle AG - Im Themen-Web gefunden werden!".
    • nachrichten.net "Das Themen-Web ist da!".
    • shuccle books "Beispiele zum Themen-Web (sPL50)".
• Web24 - ”... suchen · klicken · finden!,..................Webverzeichnis”.
• Webrings.
  • Webring.
  • Ringsurf.

• Sindice - The semantic web index.
  • Sindice - The semantic web index "Submit Your Data" - “Share your Web Data presence with Sindice”.

• The Internet Archive ( Archive.org ).
  • WayBackMachine.
  • Search for “collection:wide00002” to find webwide crawldata .
  • Error message as in-HTML-code message “Sorry. You have already reached the limit of active Save Page Now sessions. Please wait for a minute and then try again” while loading an archived website .
    • Google - Search for "archive.org Sorry You have already reached the limit of active Save Page Now sessions. Please wait for a minute and then try again".
• 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”.
• Archive '2014 of .ORG web pages.
• ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive.
• The National Archives - UK Government Web Archive, UK.
• 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”.

• DeTeMedien.
  • Gelbeseiten.
  • DasTelefonbuch.de.
  • DasOertliche.de.
    • golocal - “gemeinsam besser finden”.
  • Suchen.de.
• 11880.com.
• KlickTel.

• Pipl - “The most comprehensive people search on the web”.
• Whozat? - “A free search engine to find information about people. Find social network profiles, email, address, phone, photos, videos, a summary”.
• Yahoo! People Search.

• Freefind.
  • Freefind Control Center - Login.

• OpenWebSearch.EU.

• European Alternatives "Europäische Suchmaschinen".
• European Alternatives "Europäische Alternativen zu Microsoft Bing".
• Golem "Ecosia und Qwant starten europäischen Suchindex", 2025-08.
• Google - Search for "copilot chatgpt gemini".
  • Golem Karrierewelt "Chatbots im Vergleich – ChatGPT vs. Copilot vs. Gemini".
• heise.
  • C't 21/2025, page 40 “Europas blinder Fleck” - “Microsoft hat 2024 zunächst die Preise für den Zugriff auf die Suchergebnisse verzehnfacht – und den Zugang im August 2025 komplett eingestellt”.
  • heise "Nutzung von Bing via API wird merklich teurer ", 2023-02.
• Microoft Ignite "Bing Search APIs werden am 11. August 2025 eingestellt", 2025-05.
• Oberlo "8 Best Image Search Engines: How to Reverse Search Images Easily".
• SearchEngineWatch: "Submitting To Directories: Yahoo & The Open Directory".
• Schmidtis Blog "Europas Suchmaschine startet durch: 'Staan' von Ecosia und Qwant fordert Google & Microsoft heraus", 2025-08 - “Search Trusted API Access Network”.
• Blog article Ian Turner, Yahoo! Search blog - "Search, with a little help from your friends", 2005-06-30 → “Social Search”.

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines".
• Yahoo! Directory "Directory: Computers and Internet: Internet: World Wide Web: Searching the Web: Search Engines and Directories".

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