With Google search taking a dive over the last few years, I started thinking about specialized databases and search engines. I started making a list of them but would love recommendations of ones that you like so I can keep adding to the list

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With Google search taking a dive over the last few years, I started thinking about specialized databases and search engines. I started making a list of them but would love recommendations of ones that you like so I can keep adding to the list
Rohan Kumar has done and is still updating an extremely good write up on alternative options for search engines: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
I keep a list search engines I like to use that are don't use Bing's or Google's index, but I've been sharing this around as it pretty much covers what I had and then some.
a few more:
music:
misc: