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

Web:

• https://digger.so: Privacy focused search & exploration engine
• https://kagi.com: Ad-free search engine - much better than Google in quality (free tier available)

Science Literature:

• https://www.alphaxiv.org: RAG for for arXiv papers
• https://arxivxplorer.com: Semantic search for arXiv papers
• https://github.com/blazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server

Code Repos:

• https://deepwiki.com: LLM RAG over a github repo (just replace github.com with deepwiki.com)

Open-Source:

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng - meta-search engine
• https://github.com/asciimoo/hister - search your browser history

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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