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Free data & statistics, data collection, analysis, visualization and sharing - knoema.com. A note about searching Google Scanned Newspaper archives. As you might know, Google currently has a collection of newspaper archives that's worth knowing about. It turns out that the Newspaper Archive search still works, it just requires a bit of special technique to actually search it out. and it will show you a popup. Fill in the fields the way you want, THEN do a date-restrict to the dates you want, and THEN in the "Source" field, enter the name of the newspaper you want. And the results... If you click on the first result, you'll see this excerpt from the NYTimes of 1893 As another example, you can put in the name of one of the newspaper scanned collection in the source: field. Be sure you put in the name of a newspaper that we have in our scanned archive. Once you're on a roll and have started one of these, you can then substitute the name of another paper in the source: field slot at the top of the page without having to go back to the original URL shown above.

Let us know what interesting things you discover in the news archives. Search on! Find search engines from across the world - Search Engine Colossus. Theneeds | Your Web, Re-imagined. Quixey. DuckDuckGo. Clusty.com - Clusty Search Engine. The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web. Search engines are, in a sense, the heartbeat of the internet; “Googling” has become a part of everyday speech and is even recognized by Merriam-Webster as a grammatically correct verb.

It’s a common misconception, however, that Googling a search term will reveal every site out there that addresses your search. Typical search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing actually access only a tiny fraction — estimated at 0.03% — of the internet. The sites that traditional searches yield are part of what’s known as the Surface Web, which is comprised of indexed pages that a search engine’s web crawlers are programmed to retrieve. "As much as 90 percent of the internet is only accessible through deb web websites. " So where’s the rest? So what is the Deep Web, exactly? Search Engines and the Surface Web Understanding how surface pages are indexed by search engines can help you understand what the Deep Web is all about. How is the Deep Web Invisible to Search Engines? Reasons a Page is Invisible Art.