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Research beyond google: 119 authoritative resources

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Try searching for the same term in a couple of the "Deep Web Search Engines" plus google and compare your results.


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I found a CIA sight with info on every country of the world.
Did you know that America is the world's largest consumer of Cocaine.

I did a google search for tensor space and got over 20k results (i didn't look through them all. I used a couple other search engines from the site and got articles and documents with words I never knew could exist. I'm sure they were more sophisticated and credible.

I looked up somebody from my hometown and the deep web search had around 300,000 more websites than google

I used Infomine and searched the keyword "oppidum" which is a Latin word for a Celtic hillfort from around 1st century AD. I found a site talking about Caesar's second expedition. He clashed with native Britons, and the Britons retreated to their hillfort at Bigbury. What makes this source different from, say, google? Is there someone who is actually handpicking the sites included in Infomine?

I looked up "age compression" on Clusty and Google. Google had more than double the hits and most of the first 10 hits were the same for both, but Clusty seemed to have less "junk" hits to weed through

I looked up "age compression" on Clusty and Google. Google had more than double the hits and most of the top 10 links were the same for both. But, Clusty did look like it had less of the non-relevant "junk" links to weed through.

there are at least 7,231,536 hit results for 'andy warhol' on the clusty website, whilst google only offers 2,590,000 results.

there are at least 7,231,536 hit results for 'andy warhol' on the clusty website, whilst google only offers 2,590,000 results.

I searched for the term "colonialism" on Clusty and got 1,159,000 hits and on Google I got 7,210,000 but the results on clusty seem generally more relevant to the topic.

I searched 'globalization' under clusty and got 30,100,000 hits while google provided 8,698,013

I used clusty and infomine to do some research on Bob Ross from the Joy of Painting. Did you know that the show is still syndicated in a number countries throughout the world? Needless to say, there was not a billion hits for Bob Ross on either search

I went into clusty and searched for: "Kyle LeClaire" Minnesota. i got 5 results and 4 of them were about me!

I google, when i search the same thing, i get 6 results, with 4 of them about me.

I learned that Down syndrome is a genetic disorder resulting from the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome.

I searched for my dad's name and Google gave me more hits that were actually about him. I also found out that in Mexico my father is a folk singer apparently.

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