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Billboards on the Sunset Strip, 1970s.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Tina Turner & David Bowie: Tonight (Live 1988)

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“Happy in Gaza. The Palestinian desire for life.”

Photographed by Laura Junka-Aikio, 2004.

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guys, it is free Palestine until Palestine is free. It isn’t only ceasefire now, it is also end apartheid, occupation state now. It is free Palestine, completely, until Palestine is truly free.

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and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.

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At least 50 people were killed and at least 150 injured today in northern Gaza. Israeli missiles blew up a refugee camp. I repeat -- they bombed a refugee camp. The death toll is not complete yet as they are pulling more people out of the debris with many more feared dead or injured (estimated numbers in the hundreds). Like all bombings, any survivors will deal with health issues ranging from breathing problems to cancer, as well as a lifetime of unimaginable trauma. No place is safe in Gaza right now. A genocide is occurring before our eyes.

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it's so crazy how im a grown up

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children’s choir singing ‘jóga’ by björk (2009)

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“Gentle Soul II” by Andileh