Very hard nowadays to find information through the search engines

[Miesdevries]

Back in 2007, when I 'woke up', the internet was abundant with information. There was a lot of crap to dig through, but at least there was something to dig through that wasn't prefiltered by algorithmes like it is now. Does anybody know of a search engine that is not bothered by that? James Corbet also mentioned this problem in one of his more recent podcasts: the information is out there, but the current search engines prevent you from finding it. These days I rely more on some podcasts, like 'the noagendashow' where about a million listeners help 'produce' the show and their personal  'searchengine' bingit.io lets you dig through their shownotes archive, there is a wealth of information there but it is obviously not like the regular search engines were over a decade ago.

[Gav]

Google and Yahoo are heavily restrictive. Try this one - Yandex

[Duewy]

Oh that will fire up the haters... a .RU  search engine.

 

Personally I will add it to my resource list 

BUT

Many have to release a lot of propaganda brainwashing to accept anything from the "evil bear"

 

[Ebru]

You are right! Google looks like Yellow Pages these days. Big companies and big websites full of "skin-deep knowledge" mostly. I know, most forums are dead, many blogs also, but really, come on! Yandex has different way of indexing things and most of "English speaking web" is not indexed there... StartPage, DuckDuckGo and Searx help a little, but today's internet it is not as it used to be.

[TheRuefulPragmatist]

On 7/25/2021 at 1:55 PM, Gav said:

Google and Yahoo are heavily restrictive. Try this one - Yandex

 

Thank you. I have made this my default search engine 

[Thoth001]

I use Duckduckgo most of the time and I can find a lot of information through it.

[Thoth001]

On 7/28/2021 at 1:22 PM, TheRuefulPragmatist said:

 

Thank you. I have made this my default search engine 

I will try that one also!

[shabbirss]

also elliotsearch

[Michelle T]

I have noticed this too. I use DuckDuckGo. The way you word searches is important too. I started asking questions and it helps. Instead of keywords their AI uses and has no idea how to be anything except literal, ask specific questions. “What does it mean when…” “what is the word for when…” And then when you locate more specific information, you can do a search and get better results. It is possible to still find that information. 
 

There is another site I found that has copies of web pages as they were all the way back to like 2005 or so. I wish I could remember it. 

Edited October 24, 2021 by Michelle T
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[ConspiracyTruths.co.uk]

As a website owner I can see how damaging this is, since 2015 my website stats have dwindled every year due to less and less search engine referrals. I notice that I get referrals from Yandex, duckduckgo and ecosia. I also get a few hits from bing, yahoo and google, but I used to get a lot more from them. I use duckduckgo, but I don't particularly rate it, but I put that down to them all being as bad as each other now... maybe I should try another one.

[Truthspoon]

The only information you now get about any topic from a search engine is either an MSM 'news' story or an identical sentence cribbed from Wikipedia over two dozen websites or more.