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from Christopher Seymore on FB https://www.facebook.com/ChrisForMnU.S.Senate2024

I tried refseek for a quote by John Locke after google gave me a hot mess of AI and sponsored results and then refseek gave me nice clean accurate results

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Here's a list of sites you may have never heard of!
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Click to expand...
 
Google is my default - cos I’m lazy and these days don’t need to do so much research as I used to.

What I do find, though, is that searches done on my phone or tablet return a much more limited set of results compared to what I get on my PC. I wouldn’t have thought my activity on phone/tablet would restrict results so much, but I presume that is what is having the effect on the algorithm used for google searches?
 
I used Ecosia as a search portal for quite a while but then got sucked back into the Google machine.

Ecosia gives you points for each search which go towards eventual planting of trees.

Not sure if it's still in use. I think its underlying search engine was Bing.
 
Ecosia, duckduckgo and some other search engines take some form of aggregated results from Bing or Google according to some articles I've read on why the may not be as private as assumed. While still being a lot more private than Bing or Google themselves.
Google is still probably the best generic search engine though I find it harder these days to get it to search for what I want rather than what it thinks I really want to search for.
The search engines listed are domain specific and the results I got hunting for an article on Locke were far superior to Googles "helpful" results.
 
Google more often than not, crashes on safari/iPad ever since the AI results show as the default result.
Any way to turn google search AI off ? I can’t find a setting.
 
Cheers that works.
Also if I open google.com and then search, AI suggestions are not returned.
AI kicks in only if I search directly in the toolbar in safari.
 
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