Best List of Deep Web Research Tools 2021

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Best List of Deep Web Research Tools 2021
Table of Contents
Meta-Search Engines 3
General Search Engines and Databases 4
Academic Search Engines and Databases 5
Scientific Search Engines and Databases 5
Best Deep Web Search Engines 6
Custom Search Engines 7
Collaborative Information and Databases 7
Hints and Strategies for Deep Web Search 8
Helpful Articles and Resources for Deep Searching 8
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According to experts, traditional search engines such as Yahoo and Google only capture
roughly 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of the data is considered to
be hidden in the deep web, also known as the invisible web. So, where can you find the rest
of this data? This list contains 100 tips and tools to assist you in making the most of your
Internet searches.
Semantic Search Tools and Databases
Semantic web research tools are different from syntactic web search tools in that the search
engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them without
understanding the overall meaning of the query.
● Boxxet ― About news, blogs, videos, photos, armor, and much more topics.
● DBpedia ― DBpedia is a platform for data, tools, and services.
● DuckDuckGo ― It is a feature-rich semantic search engine that provides numerous
reasons to abandon Google. Searches are classified as classic, information, shopping, or
their own spin-off from Google.
● DATA.GOV ― Data, tools, and resources for conducting research, developing web and
mobile applications, designing data visualizations, and more can be found here.
● Gnod ― It is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. Gnod is a
self-adapting system that learns about its surroundings by asking its visitors what they
like and dislike. In the case of Gnod, everything revolves around music.
● Google News ― Google News is a news aggregator service created by Google. It displays
a constant flow of links to articles organized by publishers.
● GreyNet International ― GreyNet, or the Grey Literature Network Service, is a service
that facilitates dialogue, research, and communication between individuals and
organizations working in the field of grey literature.
● Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) ― The Internet Archive is a library that provides
free universal access to books, movies, music, and more. As well as 624 billion archived
web pages.
● Kartoo ― Best search engine and human edited web directory. KartOO assists users in
quickly finding the most relevant website for a given query.
● Metaglossary.com ― It’s a metasearch tool that enables the user to look up the
meanings and definitions of over two million words, terms, expressions, acronyms, etc.
● OpenGrey ― OpenGrey is a multidisciplinary European database that covers science,
technology, biomedical science, economics, social science, and humanities.

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● Quintura ― Quintura is a visual search engine that includes an interactive search cloud
(map) with images to help you refine your search.
● Stumpedia ― A personalized social and real-time collaborative discovery best research
tool that indexes, organizes, and reviews the internet using human participation.
● Swisscows ― Swisscows is a data-secure Google alternative. A search engine that
protects your privacy. They never collect, store, or track data.
● Semager.de ― SEMAGER's Semantic Search returns related keywords and webpages
that match the intent of your search.
● SSRN ― SSRN is devoted to the rapid global dissemination of research and is composed
of a number of specialized research networks.
● TechXtra ― Free Engineering Research, White Papers, Case Studies, Magazines, and
eBooks are found here.
● UW Libraries Articles & Research Databases ― A collection of databases where you can
find citations, full-text articles, and other materials.
● Zotero ― Free and simple research tool for collecting, organizing, quoting, and sharing
research.
Meta-Search Engines
A Metasearch engine has an advantage over a single search engine since it can obtain more
results with the same amount of effort. It also saves users from having to manually type in
searches from several engines to find materials. Check out the resources for the best metasearch
engines.
● Carrot2 ― Carrot2 is an open-source engine for cluster analysis search results. It can
group search results from various sources and generate a small collection of documents.
● Ceek.jp ― Ceek is the Japanese language unified metasearch engine. There is a
robot-style news search that pulls only text-based headlines and articles from various
sources.
● CurryGuide ― global metasearch engine and web portal search aggregator for searching
the latest news.
● Entireweb ― Entireweb is a metasearch engine that finds and displays relevant
websites, images, and real-time results.
● ETools.ch ― This Transparent metasearch engine meets Swiss standards. With a single
click, you can query multiple search engines at the same time.
● Fagan Finder ― Fagan Finder is a collection of tools and a metasearch engine that can
help you find anything online. This is an excellent starting point.
● FuzzFind Web Trends ― FuzzFind is a web-based metasearch engine mashup that
combines user-attractive results from top search engines (Google, Bing, and Yahoo! ),
social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), and real-time web trends.

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● Mamma ― Mamma is a highly regarded type of meta-web search engine that provides
precise query elements. This meta-search engine returns images, videos, web pages,
news, and local results.
● Search Engine Colossus ― With the search engine colossus international directory of
metasearch engines, you may find search engines from all over the world.
● Yamli ― Yamli Arabic Search is a web crawler focused on providing more relevant list
items to an Arabic inquiry by extending it to its most frequently used Latin portrayals.
General Search Engines and Databases

This small list of search engines and research tools should be useful when Google or even
Google Advanced Search returns disappointing results, or when you want to broaden your
research by looking at other sources.
● DeepDyve ― DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scholarly research, with
thousands of academic publications at your fingertips.
● Google ― Google is an internet search engine. It uses a proprietary algorithm to
retrieve and order search results in order to provide the most relevant and dependable
sources of possible data.
● Infoplease ― Infoplease understands the importance of having reliable sources. It is a
reference and learning site that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary,
maps, and several fact-filled almanacs.
● Microsoft Bing ― Bing is a search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing
its former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings.
● Pipl ― Pipl allows you to search for people by name, email address, phone number, or
username. Personal and professional information, contact information, and other details
are included in the results.
● Silobreaker ― Silobreaker is a tool that assists security, business, and intelligence
professionals in making sense of the vast amount of data available on the internet.
● The WWW Virtual Library ― The World Wide Web Virtual Library was the first content
index on the World Wide Web, and it continues to serve as a directory of e-texts and
information sources on the web.
● Yahoo ― Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory
of World Wide Web sites organized in a topic organizational chart.
Academic Search Engines and Databases

Academic search engines have overtaken all other resources for finding research papers and
other scholarly sources. An academic database is a collection of information that is commonly
used for research and writing, including access to academic journals. Check out a comprehensive
list of Academic resources.

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● Academic Info ― A comprehensive set of accessible data from academic subject entries
and data as an instructional subject index.
● AJOL – African Journals Online ― African Journals Online (AJOL) is the world's largest
and most authoritative platform for scholarly journals published in Africa.
● Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ― DOAJ is a community-curated online
directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed
journals.
● Google Scholar Search ― Google Scholar empowers you to look explicitly for academic
writing, including peer-evaluated papers, theories, books, preprints, edited
compositions, and specialized reports from all wide spaces of examination.
● HighWire Press ― HighWire Press is a useful medical literature search engine that
anyone with access to the internet can use for free.
● Intute - Repository search ― Intute was a free Web service aimed at students, teachers,
and researchers in further and higher education in the United Kingdom.
● Metapress ― Metapress is a media company that publishes breaking news in the fields
of technology, business, entertainment, science, and health.
● Virtual Learning Resource Center ― A Google alternative safe search engine for
students that provides information and reference sites such as art, social sciences, social
issues, social problems, history, biography, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias,
science, math, chemistry, biology, and dictionaries.
● WorldCat ― WorldCat is the world's most comprehensive database of information about
library collections. OCLC provides quality, discoverability, and value.
Scientific Search Engines and Databases

The scientific community maintains a large number of databases that can provide a wealth
of information but may not appear in standard search engine results. Check them out to see
if you can find what you're looking for.
● BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine ― The BASE is one of the most extensive web
search tools in the world, especially for academic open access web assets. BASE collects,
standardizes, and records this information.
● CiteSeerx ― CiteSeerx aims to improve scientific literature dissemination by improving
functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness of
access to scientific and scholarly knowledge.
● Google Scholar Search ― Google Scholar empowers you to look explicitly for academic
writing, including peer-evaluated papers, theories, books, preprints, edited
compositions, and specialized reports from all wide spaces of examination.
● Gene Ontology ― The GO Consortium's mission is to create an up-to-date,
comprehensive computational model of biological systems, from the molecular level to
larger pathways, cellular, and organism-level systems.

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● Scitation ― The most influential news, commentary, analysis, and research in the
Physical Sciences can be found on Scitation.
● Science Research ― ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly accessible deep web search
engine that returns high-quality results by submitting your search query in real-time.
● WorldWideScience ― WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprising
national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org
accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing a one-stop search of databases
from around the world.
Best Deep Web Search Engines

The Deep Web refers to data that is not indexed by any standard search engine, such as
Google or Yahoo. The 'Deep Web' refers to all web pages that search engines cannot find,
such as user databases, web forums that require registration, webmail pages, and pages
behind paywalls. The best deep web search tools and databases are listed here.
● Ahmia ― Ahmia searches for hidden services on the Tor network. You will need the Tor
browser bundle to access these hidden services. In Ahmia, abusive content is strictly
prohibited.
● BizNar ― Biznar is a deep web search engine that returns high-quality results by
submitting your query to multiple search engines and compiling, ranking, and removing
duplicates from the results.
● Directory of Open Access Journals ― DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that
indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
● Elephind ― Elephind.com allows family historians, genealogists, and researchers to
search historic digitized newspaper archives from around the world. It allows you to
search for free across multiple newspaper websites at the same time.
● The Hidden Wiki ― The Hidden Wiki was a dark web MediaWiki wiki that operated as
Tor hidden services and could be edited anonymously after registering on the site.
● Spokeo ― Spokeo is a people intelligence service that allows you to search, connect, and
learn about the people you're dealing with. Professionals use it to find new customers or
to prevent fraud.
● WorldCat ― WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.
WorldCat libraries are committed to making their resources available on the Web. From
here, you can search for books, music, videos, articles, and much more.
Custom Search Engines

A custom search engine is one that can be built by anyone. The developers can select which
websites to include in the search engine and limit the results to only those domains. The
traditional approach was to take a template from an existing open source project.

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● Google Programmable ― Google Programmable Search Engine enables you to create a
search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites. It is a platform
provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web
searches.
● Google ― Google is an internet search engine. It uses a proprietary algorithm to retrieve
and order search results in order to provide the most relevant and dependable sources
of possible data.
● Microsoft Bing ― Bing is a search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing
its former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings.
● Yahoo ― Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory
of World Wide Web sites organized in a topic organizational chart.
Collaborative Information and Databases

The Collaborative Database (CODABA) is a web-based platform that contains entries on plans
and programs in capability development and in-service capabilities that are shared within
the community of all participating Member States.
● Digg ― Digg is a social networking website featuring user-submitted news stories.

● Reddit ― Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and
discussion website.
● StumbleUpon ― StumbleUpon is a discovery and advertising engine that recommends
web content to its users.
● Technorati ― Trending news, entertainment, sports, videos, personalized content, web
searches, and much more are all part of Technorati's start-up.
● Twine ― Twine is a free and open-source tool for creating interactive fiction in the form
of web pages. It is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Hints and Strategies for Deep Web Search

Searching the deep web should be done differently, so use these strategies to get started.
Don't rely on old search methods. Be aware that approximately 99 percent of the content
on the Internet does not appear in traditional search engines, so consider alternative
methods of searching.
Look up databases. Enter your keyword along with "database" into any search engine to find
any searchable databases (for example, "running database" or "woodworking database").
Obtain a library card. For users with an active library card, many public libraries provide
access to research databases.

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Maintain your knowledge. Reading blogs or other updated guides about Internet searches
on a regular basis will keep you up to date on the latest information about Internet searches.
Investigate government databases. There are numerous government databases available

that contain a wealth of information that you may be looking for.
Make a note of your databases. When you find useful databases, don't forget to bookmark
them so you can return to them later.
Practice. The more you practice searching the deep web, the better you will become at it,
just like any other type of research.
Don't give up. Researchers agree that the majority of the information hidden in the deep
web is of the highest quality.
Helpful Articles and Resources for Deep Searching

Aside from the deep web search tools listed above, seek expert assistance and read these
articles, and other resources to better comprehend the deep web.
● Deep Web – Wikipedia ― Get the basics about the deep web as well as links to some
helpful resources with this article.
● Deep Web – AI3:::Adaptive Information ― This assortment of articles from the
co-coiner of the phrase "deep web," Michael Bergman offers a look at the current state
of deep web perspectives.
● Specialized Search Engines List ― AOFIRS has compiled a comprehensive list of
different types of search engines, including web search engines, video search engines,
meta-search engines, image search engines, academic search engines, blog search
engines, directories, private search engine lists, people search engines, Q & A search
engines, research reports.

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