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Search the new whtech url using Google:
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Finding information on the Internet is becoming very difficult. Please do try the following search engines.
When researching on the internet, try not to limit yourself to one search engine. None of them are even close to perfect, and even using them all you may not find the website with the information you need. It does not mean there is none. There are very few useable search engines left. I will not use any that insist on javascript. Search engines regularly modify their algorithms to reduce hijacked results (sometimes works, sometimes makes things worse!) so your favourite today could serve you junk tomorrow (and be back to best next month). The current crop of websites go out of their way NOT to be indexed...
The various search tools have differing sets of web pages and differing algorithms. For difficult subjects it is usually best to use two or three search engines at least.
I have found it advantageous to try some of the other search engines below.
Frog Find
One Search
This is now my most used search engine. It is a Bing scraper. Not biased by prior searches. No deluge of sponsored links. Few utterly irrelevant links. This form uses moderate safe search. I have to turn off CSS to select search period . Good image search.
NOTE: Onesearch is BUGGY - if there are any problems at all, it just says there are no results - generally if you refresh such a page several times the results will show up.
The source of onesearch searches is Bing (Without script, it offers me no date filter, no image access!!):
DuckDuckGo
Duckduckgo may serve a very large number of irrelevant pages (sadly they retain the enormous Ggle spam content) and omits the obvious ones- now often MORE than Google.
Duckduckgo now allows a date filter. No image search works for me. I'd like to place them higher, but they are poor at finding the pages I want.
The Others
Mojeek- like Google- can sometimes be unduly defensive and rarely finds what I am looking for!
Search text in Gutenberg books
Search on the first 100k or so of the text in books held by Project Gutenberg using this subset from Google:
Archive.org
IMPORTANT: archive.org has continued its move to only work with "modern browsers". Finding a document or media on archive.org is very difficult to impossible. There is another way- a very small 31k script written in awk, which you can access online. If you want you can paste the script onto your own computer and run it as a tiny dedicated web server. But online is available and faster for me, so here is a search for archive.org- put as many terms in as you wish eg "hancock's half hour" or "bbc radio drama" or "angus macvicar".
[This search at present uses http, https is available if you want and your browser supports elliptical curve. This search works with all scripts forbidden in your browser settings. NOTE: This search ignores the web archive eg no saved web pages].
Wikipedia
This is a search box for wikipedia that does not require scripts, courtesy of theoldnet.com . You will get a page of links and choose one to go to the wikipedia page. No elliptical curve https required. Links outside wikipedia will not function.
Infogalactic
Search BBC Program Index
Tidy youtube search
At present Youtube is very hostile to who it serves its pages to, refusing old browsers and requiring scripting enabled. Here is a rather simpler search you can use, using "Invideous" coding.
Type the video you are looking for in the input box below the word "INVIDEOUS" when the page comes up.
Easy to select date period, length and so on. NB: Results use elliptical curve.
When you have selected your video there is even a DOWNLOAD button to use....select 360p or 720p as you prefer.
In line with recent news stories (2023) youtube is making life very difficult for alternative sources, and this service may fail for periods due to youtube "defensive" actions.
1. If you have the youtube reference key it in here and go straight to the video:
or 2. Search the youtube database NB due to some incompatabilities in data format this search MAY fail with some searches. Try something slightly different if that happens. The failure is due to the format of the search result returned by youtube.
The list of current invideous instances: Invideous list
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