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
LOOK at it. The object. I think I'll make a bigger version too I did buy this pattern, right here (they also do HTTYD stuff!!!):
Sunspot is done he is finally done it's been like two months and he's finally done!! And he STANDS! I can't believe he stands!
This is the Large Wyvern pattern by craft intentions on etsy. Absolute beast to make (pun intended)
standing in line at the grocery store when inspiration hit and I messaged myself "monster hunter how to train your dragon"
if u want some stickers
"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.
no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.
they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."
every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.
your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.
Plesioth is next up to be httyd-ified, but progress is a little slow due to this man putting stuff in his mouth that he shouldn't
Will be posting again soon, thinking of doing rathalos soon >:)
Until then check out this sweater I made for my cat (he is feeling much better)
*places a ball of yarn gently on top of the laundry basket*
Okay now if I don't bring the laundry upstairs my cats will die
(cat tax)
(yes all of my hobbies include stuff that my cats will hapily eat)
So I've finished it! It's been done for a while now, but... I need some constructive criticism. It also doesn't stand up very well, which I'm wondering would be a bad selling point if I made the pattern.
I think he's cute though, and I don't have the heart to undo all that work lol.
the baby. I must crochet it. but how
hobbies: 2D art, crochet, vidyagames ~~~ updates: bought a sewing machine ~~~ work: museum education/biology ~~~ side gig: yt channel Two Birds With One Game (is it a side gig if it doesn't make money?)
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