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Reverse image search, niche indexes, and search engines built on a premise other than popularity. What the web looks like when ranked differently.
13 sites
Searches the web for actual sound files by keyword, in a layout untouched since roughly 2003. Still the fastest route to a duck quack.
Plots how often a phrase appears across books printed since 1500. Watch a word arrive, peak, and quietly fall out of use.
Grey text on beige, no images, and the best comment threads anywhere about how technical things actually work. Search covers twenty years.
An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.
Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.
Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.
Searches around a billion openly licensed images and audio files, with the licence terms attached to every single result.
Reverse image search tuned for illustration: hand it a cropped screenshot and it names the artist and the original post.
Indexes only independent personal websites whose owners submitted them. No content farms, because there is nothing there to farm.
Search engine for internet-connected devices rather than pages: webcams, routers and industrial kit nobody meant to publish.
Non-commercial web search indexing only pages carrying no ads or trackers at all. A very small and very different internet.
Reverse image search that finds the oldest copy of a picture rather than visually similar ones. The tool for tracing where a photo began.
Widely reckoned the strongest reverse image search for faces, places and heavily cropped photos. Worth trying when TinEye finds nothing.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.