Metasearch Resources

What are the best:
Metasearch engines?
Ways to search the web?
Ways to view the invisible web?
Ways to view the dark web?
Ways to ask questions?
Best single search engines?

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Metasearch Engines
There are many more good metasearch engines out there than the ones I listed below. The ones shown below are the ones that I found to be the most useful.

Metasearch Engines with good privacy
Etools.ch: gets results from 16 search engines with good privacy.
Startpage.com: powerful private metasearch (10+ search engines).
Duckduckgo.com: powerful private customized metasearch engine.

Metasearch Engines without privacy
Info.com: gets results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex.
Dogpile.com: powerful old metasearch engine.
Izito.com: gets results from 6 popular search engines.
Metasearch Guide: article about metasearch engines.

Metasearch Engines worthy of mention
Qwant: Reasonable privacy, database of over 20 billion web pages.
Searx (index of): Open source code. Many public implementations. Results of 82+ engines.

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Searching the Web
The best general way to search the visible web is through the use of a good metasearch engine like Etools. Metasearch engines can provide a greater number of good results than single search engines because they are search data aggregators. In addition to possibly using their own database they also use the databases of other search engines and aggregate the results in their search result output. Metasearch engine popularity is falling as Google continues improves the quality of its search results.

A slower but more organized way to research a specific topic is to use a specialized search. You can also go to sites (gateways or directories) with subject or topics indexes.

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Invisible Web Resources

Information on the invisible web is, by definition, invisible unless you know where and how to find it. The amount of information on the invisible web is 100s maybe even 1000s of times larger than what's available on the visible web. Most of it is not visible to single or metasearch engines (Ref). Non-encrypted parts of the invisible web are often accessed through sites having topic indexes pointing to specific directories/gateways.

Beaucoup.com: results from 2500+ sources with good privacy.
People.hws.edu: many gateways (ex. Beaucoup) to invisible web.

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