A presentation on alternatives to the Google search engine

1. SEARCHING ABG
Phil Bradley Internet Librarian Internation 2017 Websearch Academy

2. ANYTHING BUT GOOGLE!

4. ONLINE RESOURCES
• Pearltree at http://bit.ly/1axJe13
• Website http://www.philb.com/searchenginespearl.htm

7. TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE
• Free text
• Google, Yahoo, Bing,
• Directory
• Jasmine Directory
• Multi/Meta search
• Trovando
• Browsys

8. 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”

9. BING

10. BINGITON.COM

11. DUCKDUCKGO

12. DDG ‘BANGS’

14. DDG SHORTCUTS 1

15. DDG SHORTCUTS 2

16. HTTPS://WWW.YANDEX.COM/

17. ADVANCED SEARCH

18. SEARCH OPTIONS
& function gives you words in the
same sentence
/x gives you a word within x
of another word

19. MORE OPTIONS
Yandex searches for synonyms
Turn this off with the ! mark

20. LIMIT TO TITLE

21. STARTPAGE
HTTPS://WWW.STARTPAGE.COM/

22. OSCOBO HTTPS://OSCOBO.CO.UK/

23. ZANRAN: GOOGLE FOR DATA

24. ZANRAN RESULTS PAGE

25. DISPLAY TABLES

26. WOLFRAMALPHA
HTTPS://WWW.WOLFRAMALPHA.COM

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

28. TROVANDO RESULTS

29. SOOVLE

30. HTTP://WWW.INSTYA.COM/

31. VISUAL SEARCH ENGINES DOTHOP

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

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

36. BLIND SEARCH:WHICH IS BEST?

37. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

38. SIMILAR SITES
HTTP://WWW.SIMILARPAGES.COM

39. SIMILAR SITE SEARCH
HTTP://WWW.SIMILARSITESEARCH.C
OM/

40. NEWSMAP
HTTP://WWW.NEWSMAP.JP/

42. NEWSLOOKUP
HTTP://WWW.NEWSLOOKUP.COM/

43. NEWSNOW
HTTP://WWW.NEWSNOW.CO.UK/H/

44. 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

45. MULTIMEDIA ENGINES
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

46. YOUTUBE

47. YOUTUBE FILTERS

48. VIMEO HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/

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

51. PODCASTS: AUDIOSEAR.CH

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

53. FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHS/VIDEOS
• https://unsplash.com/
• https://stocksnap.io/
• http://www.xstockvideo.com/
• http://www.videezy.com/

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

56. SOCIAL SEARCHER
HTTPS://WWW.SOCIAL-SEARCHER.COM/

59. TWITTER ADVANCED

60. TWITTER LISTS

61. TWEET BINDER

63. TWITTER TOOLS
http://twiangulate.com/search/
http://hashtagify.me/
http://backtweets.com/
https://snapbird.org/ https://twipho.net/

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

65. FLIPBOARD

67. NEWS CURATION VIA THE WEB

68. DIGG DAILY DIGEST

69. SCOOP.IT

71. NUZZEL
HTTP://NUZZEL.COM/PHILBRADLEY

72. SEARCHING FACEBOOK

73. SEARCH IS BACK

74. INTELTECHNIQUES
HTTPS://INTELTECHNIQUES.COM/INTEL/OSINT/FACEBOOK.HT
ML

75. LINKEDIN

76. DIIGO

77. PINTEREST

78. BROWSER TOOLS

79. BOOKOLIO

80. ALL IN ONE

81. 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

82. SOME INTERESTING ENGINES

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

84. WORLDOMETERS.INFO

85. NUMBERQUOTES.COM

86. BENOSEY

87. SPARRHO.COM

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

89. THANK YOU!
• http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
• http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/
• http://www.slideshare.net/philbradley/
• philb@philb.com