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Wikipedia
List of search engines, their specialty, languages used, and provenance.
Wikipedia
Comparison of Search engines using tables using independent crawlers, owner, questions, digital rights, privacy. tracking, surveillance and more.
THE THREE BIGS
Google
83% more people use Google than any other search engine.
Bing
Microsoft affiliated. Has natural language ability. More visual.
DuckDuckGo
Touts privacy.
The 8 Best Search Engines of 2024: While you could use Google to find other search engines, here are the ones we think are arguably better
A well organized comparison article with excellent highlights.
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Privacy oriented i Alternatives
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Startpage - It provides Google search results without tracking, combining Google's search power with enhanced privacy. /Netherlands
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Brave Search - privacy and speed. Has it's own index. It isn't impacted by search history.
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Qwant - France. Uses Bing to deliver results but uses its own independent systems. Close partner of Microsoft and has Bin adds. “the search engine that doesn't know anything about you.”
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SwissCows - Anonymous search engine that is family friendly. Switzerland. “technology is built in such a way that the storage of user data is not even possible.” However, it has Microsoft ads embedded in search results.
Charity Project This is the number of your SwissCows searches. On average, 50 search queries finance a children's meal. -
Giburu - does not track IP addresses, record searches or place cookies for advertisers. Delivers search results that doesn't always show on Google.
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Metasearch Engines: Aggregating Results from Multiple Sources
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Startpage
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SearX
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- Decentalized
- Presearch. It's decentralized and it has a nice UI where you can select alternative search engines to you can instantly check another search engine (or site) with the same query.
AI Based Search Engine
You.com - has AI assistant. Does have a private mode and personal. Relies on Bing, Imagine for AI image generation, and YouWrite text generation.
Perplexity.ai - Just doesn't list web page and cites sources. It has a smart assistant named Copilot. Natural language ability
Komo - speed and privacy, interactive with follow up question (though...don't they all?) Google Search Generative Experience (SGE). (not rolled out yet in the Labs part of Google) SGE is available visible on mobile
Notes in progress
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SearX: This one's unique from the previous two, in that it's actually a "meta-search" engine that combines/ amalgamates the results of Google and Bing's web crawlers, then re-prioritizes them accordingly.
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Brave: Kind of an outlier here, Bing is a relative newcomer to the scene, being only a few years old. They have both a browser and a search engine. What separates them from the competition, is apparently they're crafting their own independent web results/ crawler, completely separate from Google or Bing. Not sure if they've fully accomplished this by now. They and Duckduckgo are the names I hear come up the most when jt comes to un-censored search results and privacy/ tracking-free.
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Rhonda The Librarian's Reading & Research Review March Weather by rhondakwrites
Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : The early modern “Fated Sky”.
"While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena" (Chiari, 2019).
Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? Rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century Africa.
"Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming." -- Project Muse
Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather.
"However, we are still far from fully understanding what and how causes this variability. Why does the Sun continue to go on, on a rhythmic scale, the so-called solar cycle, without damping? How to better understand the complicated relationships between the Sun, the heliosphere and the many proxies of long-term solar activity?" - From Publisher
A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost.
"In the end, there is the disastrous Democratic National Convention of 1968, the driving from office of Lyndon Johnson, and the election of Richard Nixon. Gaillard quotes historian Todd Gitlin in commenting on the rise of violence and disenchantment as the decade dragged on: 'Rage was becoming the common coin of American culture (Esposito, 2018).
Rain shadow.
"Your heart traps mine as summits catch storms. Call this to calm the rain shadow. What will remain?" From poem The Same Mountain Twice.
A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience.
"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters." Publisher
References
Baker, E. (2015). A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience. Oxford University Press.
Bradley, N. (2018). Rain shadow. University of Alberta Press.
Chiari, S. (2019). Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : the early modern “Fated Sky”. Edinburgh University Press.
Esposito, J. A. (2018, December 18). A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost [Book review]. Washington
Independent Review of Books.
Gaillard, F. (2018). A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost. NewSouth Books.
Mawere, M., & Nhemachena, A. (2019).Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century
Africa. Project Muse.
Rozelot, J., & Babayev, E. (2018). Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather. EDP Sciences.
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