https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

A free library that anyone can improve.

Potentially useful as a concordance search for a variety of books, articles, and other sources which have full textual search.

https://factba.se/trump/

Trump had a vlog?!?

https://www.pdfdrive.com/

-u/Pambaiden at https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooks/comments/12go4ft/my_notebook_gets_stain_on_it_when_i_leave_it/

Example of someone who queried ChatGPT as a general search engine to solve a problem and mentioned it in a public Reddit when asking for general advice about a problem with their notebook.

While the Syntopicon ultimately appears in book form, one must recall that it started life as a paper slip-based card index (Life v24, issue 4, 1948). This index can be queried in some of the ways one might have queried a library card catalog or more specifically the way in which Niklas Luhmann indicated that he queried his zettelkasten (Luhmann,1981). Unlike a library card catalog, The Syntopicon would not only provide a variety of entry places within the Western canon to begin their search for answers, but would provide specific page numbers and passages rather than references to entire books.

The Syntopicon invites the reader to make on the set whatever demands arise from his own problems and interests. It is constructed to enable the reader, no matter what the stages of his reading in other ways, to find that part of the Great Conversation in which any topic that interests him is being discussed. (p. 85)

While the search space for the Syntopicon wasn't as large as the corpus covered by larger search engines of the 21st century, the work that went into making it and the depth and focus of the sources make it a much more valuable search tool from a humanistic perspective. This work and value can also be seen in a personal zettelkasten. Some of the value appears in the form of having previously built a store of contextualized knowledge, particularly in cases where some ideas have been forgotten or not easily called to mind, which serves as a context ratchet upon which to continue exploring and building.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

Swiftly access your search engines in a popup panel when you select text in a webpage.

A quick UI method for selecting text and then searching within it using a variety of engines, wikis, etc.

political dimension of algorithms

I like this phase as it captures what we surrender for convenience...

https://searx.github.io/searx/

Mentioned by Taylor Jadin.

https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-07-02-providing-meaningful-search-results-without-own-index.html

https://context.center/topics/indie-search/

https://wiki.nikiv.dev/web/search-engines

What a fantastic list of search engines and search related tools.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

link to - https://boffosocko.com/2022/06/18/wikilinks-and-hashtags-as-a-portal-to-cross-site-search/

https://www.mojeek.com/

I've long been contemplating the modern-day equivalents of the Llullian combinatorial arts and the relationship to Google's search engine is an interesting one.

I've always said that knowing the name of the thing you're searching for (especially in technical settings) will aid you immeasurably in finding it. For example, if you're searching for content management systems and don't know that as their name or even the name of an example, you're unlikely to be very successful.

http://oldavista.com/

Old'aVista, a play on the old Altavista search engine.

Open Knowledge Maps uses the open-source Bielefeld Academic Search Engine and in 2021 indicated that it covers 270 million documents including preprints. Open Knowledge Maps also curates its index to remove spam.

How much spam is included in the journal article space? I've heard of incredibly low quality and poorly edited journals, so filtering those out may be fairly easy to do, but are there smaller levels of individual spam below that?

How much history is covered here?

Will mnemotechniques be covered here? Spaced repetition? Note taking methods in the commonplace book or zettelkasten traditions?

https://search.marginalia.nu/

A search engine for IndieWeb sites.

https://cartoonbank.com/web/guest/home

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/03/tip-add-reddit-to-search-queries-on-to-get-authentic-human-results-untainted-by-seo.html

Tip: add "reddit" to search queries to get authentic human results untainted by SEO

https://beta.flim.ai/

https://indieweb-search.jamesg.blog/about

Methods for attacking a research problem about history used here:

• Web research
• Journal database research
• Zotero reference manager stub
• Research Rabbit (AI search)
• Reach out on various social media channels

Not mentioned, but perhaps useful:

• Standard library search (WorldCat)
• Internet Archive search (scanned historical textbooks)
• Off-label and dark web services (Library Genesis, Pirate Bay, etc.)
• Open access and OER sources (this will probably find newer perspectives and newer texts which sometimes have philosophical outlines of what they're trying to change for the future versus the pedagogies of the past)
• Current curricula and recommended textbooks at major universities on particular books and potential comparisons to those of the past (perhaps via Internet Archive).

Cancel culture and modern mob justice are possible as the result of volumes of more detail and data as well as large doses of context collapse.

In some cases, it's probably justified to help level the playing field for those in power who are practicing hypocrisy, but in others, it's simply a lack of context by broader society who have kneejerk reactions which have the ability to be "remembered" by broader society with search engines.

How might Google allow the right to forget to serve as a means of restorative justice?

Ce serait quoi ton moteur de recherche préféré pour remplacer G? Je suis un peu tanné de Duckduckgo, c'est pas fort.

we’re at a pivotal point not just in the life of our democracy, but in how we think, read, and make choices. Selective information is being presented to us in a way that encourages selective reading and offers psychological and social rewards for, to put it bluntly, being stupid and submissive and spreading stupid to submit others.

...

What’s different now is that this propaganda is being gamed by professionals in a massive, orchestrated data campaign at a volume, pace, and consistency that not only muddies the truth, but completely eclipses the truth. Destroys the very notion of truth.

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The truth about the truth is that we believe because we want to, because our ability to think independently is a point of pride for Americans. The people behind the curtain are telling us the same story we tell ourselves about ourselves. But this is also a vulnerability: Independence is in its purist form a kind of division. If you exploit it the right way, you can turn a democracy against itself.

"Don't be evil."<br> "Do the right thing."<br> Riiiiiiiiight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

More about Google search results being dominated by extremists, hate groups, and conspiracy theorists.