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Search pkidd.com (using Google)

Search Google

Decisions

DuckDuckGo

Translate

How Search Works - The Story – Inside Search – Google

FTP - GopherSpace - Telnet - News or NNTP - WAIS

Note that there is a lot of overlap in all categories. Many search tools are combinations of more than one type of search tool. Many search tools include results obtained from other search tools.

Searching Tips & Techniques

Security / Privacy / AI
- Can You Turn Off Google and Meta’s A.I. Tools? Sometimes, and Here’s How. - The New York Times
- Google
  - A.I. summaries can be distracting, and there’s no way to deactivate them from loading, but you can click a button to filter them out. Click the “Web” tab to see a list of plain search results.
  - Users can prevent Google from keeping a record of their web searches by visiting myactivity.google.com and switching off “web and app activity.” - My Activity
  - Google also has an A.I. chatbot, Gemini, and the setting to prevent it from storing data can be found at myactivity.google.com/product/gemini.
- Meta / Facebook / WhatsApp / Messenger
  - Meta’s apps include Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. There is currently no way for users to turn off Meta AI.
- Microsoft
  - Copilot
    - Edge > edge://settings > Sidebar > App and notification settings > Copilot > Off
    - If you want to prevent Copilot from using your data to train the A.I., you have to visit copilot.microsoft.com and go into the privacy menu in the account settings, where you can toggle off an option labeled “Model training.”
  - LinkedIn
    - LinkedIn > Settings > Privacy (tab in your profile) > Data privacy (tab) > Data for GenAI Improvement > Off
- Apple
  - Apple’s suite of A.I. services = Apple Intelligence
  - Apple users will have to opt in through a menu labeled “Apple Intelligence & Siri.”
Google Search Tips You'll Want to Learn | PC`Mag
- Google
- What does Google know about me? - Quora
Searching the Internet - An Overview
Online Sites with Information about Research -- Some useful sites online that provide further guidance about searching.

Desktop Search Utilities --
- Everything app by voidtools
- How to use the Search tool in Windows 10 File Explorer - TechRepublic
- Windows Search | Cortana
  - Windows 10 - No search results from control panel or settings! - Windows Support - Neowin
    - C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState
      - Right-click the Indexed folder > Properties > Advanced > Check Allow files in this folder to have indexed in addition to file properties. Click Apply and Exit.
        If already checked, uncheck it > apply > recheck it > apply and that should fix it.
    - Right-click on the "C" drive
      Click on "Properties"
      Check the box that says "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties"
      Click "OK"
      Select "Apply changes to drive C:\, subfolders and files"
      Click "OK" and wait for the index to be rebuilt
    - Get Classic Shell and forget about Cortana and Windows menu. It has much better search. Read its search guide.
      - Classic Shell • View topic - Start Menu Search Guide
- Off-line search utilities to search your computer or your network.
  - Copernic | Search technology software for Server & PC
  - Google Desktop - $00
  - Windows Vista Indexed Search - Free with Windows Vista
  - X1 - Unified, Actionable Search - $50/yr
  - Locate32 - $00
- Off-line search utilities help to speed up Internet searches by querying multiple search engines simultaneously.
Monash/Allsearch Meta Search Engine - How to use search engines
Reverse Search | Phone Number Lookup / Image Lookup / Searching = look up a telephone number or an image
Search Engine Watch
SearchIQ: Directory of Speciality Engines and Independent Reviews

Individual Search Tools

Internet Directories = Category Indices = Browsing Indices = Browsing Trees -- These hierarchical search systems help you look for information about a broad topic, rather than very specific information. You can search through the subcategories or you can search for a word or phrase within a category. Yahoo! Canada , Yahoo! USA , The WWW Virtual Library , WebCrawler
Search Engines = Key-word Indices = Robots = Spiders -- The search engine finds and indexes information found on Web pages throughout the Internet. You can search for specific words and phrases found on a Web page. AltaVista, Excite, GO.com, Lycos, WebCrawler
Both (Directory & Search Engine): Most modern search tools include both a Search Engine (with an area where you can type in your search) and an Index (with lots of categories for you to select from).

Startpage.com - The world's most private search engine
DuckDuckGo = DDG = Privacy, simplified.
- What does Google know about me? - Quora
- Privacy, simplified. - DuckDuckGo Browser Extension & Mobile App
About.com
AllTheWeb (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
Ask Jeeves - Ask.com
Bing - (= Windows Live Search)
- How to disable Bing results from searches in Windows 10 - TechRepublic
Business.com - A special portal just for businesses. Need info on a company or an industry?Get free research on Work.com. Looking for business-to-business productsor services? Check the extensive directory, organized by industry. You'll also find industry news, travel resources, and just about anything else your business needs. Take a look!
Canada.com - Canadian news, entertainment, television, newspapers, free email and more
C|net's Shareware.com (Search for files)
DMOZ - ODP - Open Directory Project
Excite!
GO
Google
- My Activity - Sign in to review and manage your activity, including things you've searched for, websites you've visited, and videos you've watched.
- The advanced Google searches every student should know | eSchool News | eSchool News | 1
  - The advanced Google searches every student should know | eSchool News | eSchool News | 1
  - The advanced Google searches every student should know | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2
    - site:ir - (“Site:” is a Google operator that limits results to content in the extension portion of a web address.)
    - site:ac.ir - The addition of “ac” indicates an institution of higher education, much like “.edu” does for American universities.
  - Google Scholar
- Search within a specific website (site:)
  Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
- Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more
  - What is Google AdSense?
- NSIT: Google Search
- How can I embed “Google Search” box in my web-site?
- Google - http://www.google.com/custom?q=site:domainname.com term1 term2 term3 etc.
- 10 Simple Google Search Tricks - NYTimes.com
  - bunny site:pkidd.com
  - define: parasympathetic
  - 110 * (654/8 + 3)
  - time san francisco
  - 100 pounds in dollars
  - dog OR "why the bunny" site:pkidd.com
  - american president -trump
  - "american idol" -trump
  - "nobel peace prize" -trump
  - gtd filetype:ppt
  - Olympics 1950..1960
  - 415 area code
- 10 advanced Google Search operators every pro user should know
  - for an exact-match search for your phrase, place your search query inside quotes.
  - OR (uppercase)
  - minus (-) operator to remove specific keywords from the search results
  - filetype: -
    - filetype:PDF
    - filetype:PPTX
    - filtetype:PNG
  - site:websiteurl, followed by your search term
  - source:nytimes tesla
  - By default, Google Search checks the page title, URL, and content body to give you relevant search results. I
    - intitle: or allintitle: or inurl: or allinurl: or intext: or allintext:
  - $ operator
    - best phone $500 - finds the best phone under $500
    - best phone $200..$500 - finds the best phone in the range $200 to $500
  - @Twitter = @X? or @Facebook
  - related:wikipedia.com to find websites similar to Wikipedia.
Lycos
People Finder - People Search, Background Checks & Phone Number Lookup
Reverse searching
ScienceDaily Magazine: Your Source For The Latest Research News
Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup
- Reverse searching
WebCrawler
whatis.com
wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions
Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software

Collections of Search Engines

A Meta search tool sends your request to a bunch of individual search engines, which work on it simultaneously. The meta search tool collects the results and presents them to you, sometimes eliminating duplcate hits and reordering hits according to their evaluation of relevance.
All-in-One Search Pages -- Run multiple searches at one time on different search engines.

Yellow & White Pages
Find Businesses & People

TheRealYellowpages.com Electronic Directories
Free = 0$
- Addresses | Search Addresses, Phone Numbers, Businesses & People
- Canada411.ca
  - Advanced Search - Canadian People Search | Canada 411 People Finder
- Google
- 26 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try | PCMag.com
- Area codes locator - Area code lookup by number or city
  - Area Code Map - Interactive and Printable - Thanks to Jana for recommending this site.
  - See also: Canada Postal Codes & USA ZIP codes (zipcodes) ...
Not Free = $$$
- 411.com - Find Phone Numbers, People, Places
- AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions
- Bell's "Name That Number" Service @$0.50 per usage 1-514-555-1313 - Put a name to that number
- InfoSpace
- People Search & Background Checks by Name, Phone, Email or Address | PeopleSmart - USA only - Thanks to Joe Jackson for recommending this site.
- Reverse searching
  - Reverse Phone Directory
- US Search
- Switchboard
- WhitePages - CA
  - Reverse searching
- WhitePages - US
  - Reverse searching
- Whois...
- WhoWhere
- Yahoo Search

Other Search Engines

Specialty Search Engines -- Search.com , Deja News (= http://groups.google.com/)
- Wolfram Research: Mathematica, Technical and Scientific Software
Review Indices -- By reviewing WWW sites and describing and ranking the content found on the sites, these systems help steer you towards the best sites for your search. Excite , Lycos , WebCrawler
Subject Guides = Topical Indices = Virtual Libraries -- These are sources that focus on a particular topic.

AllTheWeb (Pictures, Video, MP3, etc.)
Yahoo!, Yahoo! Canada
The Canadian Psychological Association
American Journalism Review's NewsLink
Canadian Authors' Association
News Media Canada - formerly Canadian Newspaper Association

City Guides & Geographic/Regional Search Engines -- These sites help to locate information about particular countries, cities, towns, and other geographic locations.

Fee-based Databases

Dow Jones Plublications Library
ProQuest ~ Login $$
Britannica Online

PublicLegal - Internet Legal Research Group

Maps
WebCrawler
whatis.com
wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions

Maps

Maps...

Gopher Search Engines

Gopher -- Gopher is an information retrieval system developed to permit easier access to local university information. It is the text-oriented url-driven predecessor of the WWW. (Binoculars = Search; Folder = Another url; Page = Document)
A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
The information is presented in plain text format, with no graphical images included.
Gopher protocol - Wikipedia

Veronica search of GopherSpace

Veronica FAQ (Part 1 of 2)

~~Mothergopher at University of Minnesota~~ (deceased)
- ~~UMM Computing Services Newsletter - http://www.mrs.umn.edu/cs/Newsletters/spring01/gopher.shtml~~
- Gopher, Archie and veronica

FTP Search Engines

FTP -- FTP is built into your WWW browser so that it is now quite easy to transfer files down to your computer. Anonymous FTP allows you to use "anonymous" as the userid and your own e-mail address as your password. Once you have downloaded a file, you will probably need to uncompress or uncombine the file (using a File Compression utility: WinZip, 7-zip, etc.). File Transfer Protocol can also be used to upload files from your client machine to the FTP server machine.
Although FTP (see ftp.htm) is still very useful and popular (for uploading and downloading files), FTP search engines (Archie) are almost never used any more.
See also ftp.htm

Archie: a User-index of anonymous FTP

Archie by using Telnet: Login as "archie" and don't enter anything for a password. Try the Archie commands "?" "Help" "prog searchstring" "find" "whatis searchstring". Archie.McGill.ca
Archie.Rutgers.edu

News - NNTP - USENET
Forums - Search Engines

Deja News & Google - The Premier Usenet Newsgroup Search Utility

Google Groups

GRC Discussions Online
MSN Groups
News.CIS.DFN.DE / News.FU-Berlin.DE
Usenet.net | Usenet & Newsgroups Access - Free Newsgroup Trial | Usenet.net
Usenet.com | Best Usenet Service Providers 2020 - Usenet Newsgroup Reviews
Usenet Info Center Launch Pad - Usenet Info Center Launch Pad - Usenet Info Center Launch Pad
EasyNews - US$$
Binary Boy - Newsgroup Downloader
NewsBin Usenet News Robot
HTML for News / Usenet

<a href="news:alt.comp.virus">
Note that it is not news://

Telnet Search Engines

Telnet -- Telnet allows you to run a program (such as an electronic library catalogue or pay-per-use database service) on another computer. Passwords are often required.
You must make sure that a Telnet application has been set up in your Browser. You may be able to find Telnet, Trumptel, or WinTel already installed on your computer. If not, then you will have to download it and install it.
Telnet is a protocol used to logon as a terminal to a remote system, such as Pegasus or LUIS. URLs (web addresses) that begin telnet:// or tn3270:// will try and start your telnet or tn3270 helper application.

TELNET - Wikipedia
CARL = Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (VT00 Terminal) - telnet://database.carl.org
LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) - telnet://locis.loc.gov
telnet://rsl.ox.ac.uk
SJCPL's Public Library - telnet://stjos.sjcpl.lib.in.us

WAIS (Wide Area Information Service/System)

WAIS (an abbreviation for Wide Area Information System) supports retrieval of documents from databases via full-text search.
Boolean Searching in WAIS Databases
freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers