November 26, 2022 at 8:37 PM
1. https://answerthepublic.com/
Here you type in the word you're interested in and get the variants of queries with it that people search for. There is a choice of languages, including Russian. This is what the section with queries containing question words looks like.
The only downside is that in the free version you can only search about 3-4 queries a day.
They will take you to the right source by the handle.
This is a directory of sites. They are arranged in thematic folders of sites. You need to select the topic of interest and see what carefully selected for you editors platform.
2. https://openknowledgemaps.org/
The resource displays all open access materials from BASE (a search engine for a huge number of scientific materials) and PubMed (a database of medical and biological publications). You can filter by format - audio, books, maps, patents, reports, software, videos, scientific abstracts, etc.
The resource's specialty is that it shows the output on request in the form of thematic circles. They touch and overlap. The closer the circles are to each other, the more related their topics will be. In the center are those with the strongest subject similarities to all the other circles on the map. On the right, you can search for keywords already within the resulting map. If you hover your mouse over a circle, you can see how many documents there are on the topic of that circle. If you click on the circle, it enlarges and you can select the appropriate document.
Moreover, the platform has software with which you can visualize your own set of documents in the same manner.
The downside is that the platform only produces the 100 most relevant results. On the other hand it is a plus for some people because it reduces the search time.
3. https://search.carrot2.org/#/web.
This is a search engine that categorizes search results by topic folders and shows them as a paychart and a trimap. You can choose the type of clustering algorithm. Here it is:
By the way, if when you search, Carrot shows you this, just change the country in the VPN and refresh the page.
Search → select the folder of interest → there will be results on the right.
This is what Treemap looks like if you search Carrot for information about metamodernism:
The platform is also convenient because it searches through 15 search engines at once (including Google, Yandex, Bing).
4. https://www.hashatit.com/
The tool searches by hashtags, keywords, URLs, and profile mentions. It shows the newest results right away, but by selecting a particular social network in the filter, you can see older results faster.
If you register on the site, there will be an opportunity to subscribe to a certain hashtag or query to receive new posts on the topic immediately.
5. https://www.social-searcher.com/
Searches for mentions in social networks and search engines. Interestingly, the list of social networks it searches for includes VK. Usually foreign search engines do not include it. Here, too, you can set up e-mail notifications about new publications on your request.
6. https://www.01webdirectory.com/
The selection here is not very large, but may be useful. Each link has a brief description from the editors of the platform, which reduces the time it takes to browse through each resource.
Here you type in the word you're interested in and get the variants of queries with it that people search for. There is a choice of languages, including Russian. This is what the section with queries containing question words looks like.
The only downside is that in the free version you can only search about 3-4 queries a day.
They will take you to the right source by the handle.
This is a directory of sites. They are arranged in thematic folders of sites. You need to select the topic of interest and see what carefully selected for you editors platform.
2. https://openknowledgemaps.org/
The resource displays all open access materials from BASE (a search engine for a huge number of scientific materials) and PubMed (a database of medical and biological publications). You can filter by format - audio, books, maps, patents, reports, software, videos, scientific abstracts, etc.
The resource's specialty is that it shows the output on request in the form of thematic circles. They touch and overlap. The closer the circles are to each other, the more related their topics will be. In the center are those with the strongest subject similarities to all the other circles on the map. On the right, you can search for keywords already within the resulting map. If you hover your mouse over a circle, you can see how many documents there are on the topic of that circle. If you click on the circle, it enlarges and you can select the appropriate document.
Moreover, the platform has software with which you can visualize your own set of documents in the same manner.
The downside is that the platform only produces the 100 most relevant results. On the other hand it is a plus for some people because it reduces the search time.
3. https://search.carrot2.org/#/web.
This is a search engine that categorizes search results by topic folders and shows them as a paychart and a trimap. You can choose the type of clustering algorithm. Here it is:
By the way, if when you search, Carrot shows you this, just change the country in the VPN and refresh the page.
Search → select the folder of interest → there will be results on the right.
This is what Treemap looks like if you search Carrot for information about metamodernism:
The platform is also convenient because it searches through 15 search engines at once (including Google, Yandex, Bing).
4. https://www.hashatit.com/
The tool searches by hashtags, keywords, URLs, and profile mentions. It shows the newest results right away, but by selecting a particular social network in the filter, you can see older results faster.
If you register on the site, there will be an opportunity to subscribe to a certain hashtag or query to receive new posts on the topic immediately.
5. https://www.social-searcher.com/
Searches for mentions in social networks and search engines. Interestingly, the list of social networks it searches for includes VK. Usually foreign search engines do not include it. Here, too, you can set up e-mail notifications about new publications on your request.
6. https://www.01webdirectory.com/
The selection here is not very large, but may be useful. Each link has a brief description from the editors of the platform, which reduces the time it takes to browse through each resource.