Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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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. Keep a list of sites you 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.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

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

ok the peter navarro thing is funny but every time people are trying to discredit a trump advisor they fall back on this idea the person is unqualified because this allows them to condemn the individual while retaining confidence in the professional certifications system that produced them it's very transparent. the man has a phd in economics from harvard the problem isn't that he didn't come up through the prestigious channels it's that the prestigious channels are bourgeois ideology and nepotism lol

internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.

happy 10 year anniversary!

This is pretty much the new crap with the "dire wolves"

(untill proven otherwise I guess?)

dire wolf drama has led me to learning that one of the most major anatomical differences between them and all living canids is that they had Massive Dick Bones indicating their swinger lifestyle

Oh yeah, one of my favorite thing at the tar pits museum was seeing one mounted with its baculum! you NEVER see that in museums, they usually don't mount specimens with it!

Seriously, the tar pits are the best thing in LA.

Prev, re: your tags…. I want to know about the mastodon having an existential crisis at the la brea tar pits

WHO thought it'd be a good idea to make a statue of a mastodon actively dying in tar while her mate and child look on

WHO thought it would be a good idea to give the baby this facial expression?

The male looks on, impassive. This is not the first wife he's lost to the tar pit, and she won't be the last. Such is the way of the tar.

But the baby???

This is his first encounter with death. Nothing is ever going to be the same again. He and his mother scream silently against the LA skyline. They've been screaming since 1972, and they will continue to scream until they decay into the tar, collapsing into their inevitable destiny.

i love those "americans only know burger" posts cus its true we literally have a word for when something is insignificant or something without value and yeah. its "nothingburger". because whats more worthless than nothing burger....

not only is it real this word is from the 50s

Well played, Beverly.

Hi! There used to be a post asking people to donate to Nader's campaign here. For no apparent reason, access to that campaign was removed, you will find the new link below.

Israel has disrespected the ceasefire, started the machine of genocide yet again. Please, help them if you can. They need it.

always so touching and vibrant when you remember people a hundred years ago had profound lives full of fun and love

my great grandparents met because they were both telephonist-telegraphists and they used to communicate in spoken morse code so that their kids wouldn’t understand the dirty jokes they were saying. And my great-aunt was telling me the other day about how her father would sit with his kids during stormy nights and hug them as they looked out the window and he pointed out how beautiful the lightning was. Because he didn’t want them to be afraid. It isn’t far away but it’s easy to forget that people are people are people

isn’t it cool that we still take silly pictures where we pretend to put our baby niece for sale or where we pretend to officiate a funeral on the beach? I think that’s neat

In one of my family’s old photo albums from around the 1910’s-20’s there’s a picture of a dog sitting on a chair and wearing a hat.

This is my great grandma and her friends on a beach in Connecticut in 1918.

some of my faves are the ones where people have a new outfit or car, maybe even a hot date or the squad’s looking good tonight and they just had to capture their own coolness on film

I'm a very paranoid and anxious person so I get spooked by reading horror very very easily. so I have apparently developed some kind of pavlovian response to reading the scp wiki where I get scared and drained every time even for articles that aren't horror at all. but I also fucking love reading it. I've accidentally created the fucking alexmeys torture nexus.

its like waowwe I want to read awesome experimental scifi and then my brain is like "oh but I remember this is scary ghouls website, super scary ghouls and they'll get you" and my body starts having a scary ghouls stress reaction to comedy articles

don’t tell social media if you went to protests or not(especially if you didn’t), don’t give cops an easy way to track down protesters. punk life advice

In the united states they will deport you for being slightly mean to israel

trans women r literally so cool theu get tits AND a prostate?? i thought only markilpler could do that

i need 2 stop posting after taking my sleep meds jesus christ

hey guys we don't have to rb this post. like we can keep it to ourselves. we can let this post not be rbed.

FAT GiRL, VOL 2. 1995.

you can read every issue of FaT GiRL here! and you SHOULD

Okay, I finally saw Hamlet performed live yesterday, and let me tell you some of the production choices were *chef's kiss*

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities