See also: [[Research Paper Resources]] # Search Portal List ## Traditional - [Google](google.com) - ad-powered search, increasingly useless due to Google's enshittification combined with [[SEO]] and [[LLM]] - [Mojeek](https://www.mojeek.com/) - [Stract](https://trystract.com) - The main search is liberal with reinterpreting your search terms at its whim, limiting its usefulness for finding specific things - The academic search seems good though - Slow - [Marginalia](https://search.marginalia.nu) - search is fast, provides search suggestions, and finds even obscure results - Includes a fast searchable plain text mirror of Wikipedia made from periodic data dumps which may lag behind the live site by a year, but may be useful for looking up deleted articles or if Wikipedia is unreachable - open source - ! [Kagi](https://kagi.com/) PAID ONLY - ! LLM features - https://cohost.org/lori/post/5466692-i-m-typing-a-bunch-o - [Scour](https://scour.glitch.me/) - Index is manually curated individual *pages* not entire sites, which limits its scope and usefulness - Does substring matching, so if any of your search terms can be found inside of other words, the results will probably be useless - It is open source and looking at the source reveals that there is almost nothing to it, the index is just a source dump into a single shared [[JSON]] file, and absolutely will not scale - https://github.com/aTylerRobertson/scour ## Specialty - [OpenOrb](https://git.sr.ht/~lown/openorb) [Instance](https://openorb.idiot.sh/) - Atom / RSS search - [Args](https://www.args.me/index.html) - Seems to attempt sentiment analysis to list results which are proponents or detractors of a topic - However it seems to only work for extremely common topics, and is therefore borderline useless in its current form ## Programmer Search - https://sourcegraph.com/search (search public code, good for handling weird syntax) - https://quickref.me/index.html (search cheatsheets) # Search Portal Info Called "search portals" because there is a many-to-many relationship between portals and engines. | Portal | Info | | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[#Google]] | See also: [[Google]] | | [[#Bing]] | See also: [[Microsoft]] | | [DuckDuckGo](duckduckgo.com) | <br>Uses [[#Bing]]'s index. | | [Ecosia](https://www.ecosia.org/) | Purports to block ads but serves its own ads whose proceeds supposedly go to charity.<br>Uses [[#Bing]]'s index. | | [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/) | Uses [[#Bing]]'s index. | # Directories - [The Online Books Page - Magazine List](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html) - [Aftermath - Best Active Forums List](https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today) # References - https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ - https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/ - https://searchengine.party/ - https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-2021-list-of-alternative-search-engines-and-search-resources/ - https://appsero.com/tips-tricks/dedicated-search-engine-for-programmers/ - https://virtualmoose.org/2024/05/20/the-database-turnpike/ - https://cohost.org/jetsetruri/post/4669844-neat-search-engines - https://nadh.in/blog/decentralised-open-indexes/