8 Search Engines that Google is Hiding from us.
Google search engine is the most popular search engine we use or Google browser. There are 228 million searches per hour, 5.6 billion searches per day, or 2 trillion searches per year! That’s many searches! But there are some other search engines we need, but Google is hiding them. These search engines are not popular among us as Google. I will tell you what those are.
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
2. WorldCat
WorldCat is an online library catalogue that lets you look up books, dissertations, microform, journals and multimedia items in libraries worldwide.
3. SpringerLink
Springer Link is a publisher platform which provides easy access to peer-reviewed journal articles, e-books and other resources, chiefly in the science, technical and medical subject areas.
4. Bioline
Bioline International is a pioneer in providing open access to peer-reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity. Bioline increases the visibility of this research by making it readily available to researchers worldwide. Bioline is not a publisher but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals that wish to participate in the global open access movement.
5. RePEc
General principles. RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is an initiative that seeks to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related areas.
6. Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information, including research and development results.
7. PDF Drive
PDF Drive is an online PDF search engine that lets you search, preview and download PDFs. According to the site, there are over 75 million eBooks, magazines, articles, and more that are indexed and discoverable directly on PDF Drive.
8. base search
A search on which you can base multiple similar searches. For example, if you have a dashboard running several similar searches, you can save search resources by creating a base search for the dashboard.
