Digital (Re)Search

A short how to (re)search for and access relevant information in the age of semantic search and open information.

Useful Search Engines

• https://kagi.com/: Ad-free search engine - much better than Google in quality (free tier available)
• https://exa.ai/search: Semantic search engine which often spits out relevant papers and blog articles
• https://www.alphaxiv.org/: RAG for for arXiv papers
• https://arxivxplorer.com/: Semantic search for arXiv papers

Free Information Resources

• https://paperpanda.app/search: SciHub for free access to papers
• https://welib.st/: Free access to eBooks & papers
• https://freedium-mirror.cfd/: Unlock medium articles
• https://archive.org/: Archive of the Web
  • https://web.archive.org/: Wayback machine (stores snapshots of websites)
• https://annas-archive.org/: Archive of humanity's knowledge

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