Research Beyong Google - 56 Authoritative, Invisible and Comprehensive Resources

Hi All,

The title says it all - lots of great (authoritative, invisible, comprehensive) resources for the inner research geek in all of us...click here for a bit of information about evaluating resources on the web.
Click on this link to learn about how to search the invisible web...sounds mysterious - its not though...
The site is OEDb - aka the Open Education Database.

Topics covered in the article include Deep Web Search Engines, Art, Books Online, Business, Consumer, Economic and Job Data, Finance and Investing, General Research, Government Data, International, Law and Politics, Library of Congress, Medical and Health, STEM and Transportation.
Quite a wide variety of topics that's for sure. 

Next to each link there is a very brief - about 1-2 sentences - summary of the resource.  Then a direct link to the site.  Quick and easy and no muss and no fuss. 

One thing - the page was generated in 2013 so be aware that some - probably not very many though - sites are not working.  Most are...but still.  Your mileage might vary but the resources are well worth the time you'll spend finding the information elsewhere.

Now...go search and check out these great resources.

Regards,
Stu

Hi All,

From time to time, I do a cleanup blog entry where I list and discuss various sites that I've bookmarked or seen over the last few months...forthwith...that very same entry...

Note that the topics run the gamut from search engines, birding, online education, World War II photos, kids books, cooking websites, meditation, spring cleaning and much more.



Enjoy the links and the sites.

Stu

DuckDuckGo - Search Engine  is Taking On Google By Doing the One Thing They Won't Do

Birding on the Net

MIT To Offer Mostly-Free Online Classes That Earn Credit - US News 

10 Surprising Secrets No One Told You Yet About Meditation

Reading in Restraint: The Last Chained Libraries 

World War II Photos - Archives.gov

Down For Everyone or Just Me  - Check if Your Website is Down or Up?

Libraries Become Tech Hubs For the Digitally Inclined

Ultimate Guide to Spring Cleaning Your Bedroom 

Bookworm - Best Books For Kids of All Ages 

Best Food and Cooking Websites 

Google Sky

Letter of Recommendation: Alternative Search Engines

The 100 Best, Most Interesting Blogs and Websites of 2015 

Cinema Sins - No Movie Is Without Sins 

Amazon Price Tracker - Amazon Price History Charts, Price Watches and  Price Drop Alerts

Bing vs Google - Which is the Better Search

Hi All,

Now that Bing has been out in the internet wilds for a few years now (actually released in 2009 - how long ago that seems!) we can get some really good answers as to which is the better search engine.  Read the rest of this post to learn more about Bing vs Google.

First stop should be a site called Bing vs Google.  Click here for the link. Users can enter a search and see side by side results from both search engines on one single page - which makes evaluating the search results much easier. 

Click here for a link to Wikipedia's entry for Bing.  Click here for a link to Wikipedia's entry for Google.

Click on this link for a site called Bing It On.  Basically a study was done that says Bing is better than Google.  This link will go into more detail as to how the study was done by the folks who created the website Bing It On.

This article from Digital Trends is fairly insightful...it discusses malware and Google and Bing.  And finally, from SearchEngineWatch.com comes this article about the future of searching and how the competition between Bing and Google is setting the pace for internet search in the future.

Enjoy the links and may the searching heat up and get better.

Regards,
Stu