The following are unreliable sources because they require confirmation with a reliable source:

• Wikipedia: although this is a good starting point for finding initial ideas about a topic, some of their information and attached resources may not be reliable.
• Blogs, tweets.
• Personal websites.
• Forums.

Types of Reliable Sources Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles or books -written by researchers for students and researchers. Original research, extensive bibliography. Found in GALILEO’s academic databases and Google Scholar. Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.

The top list of academic search engines

1. Google Scholar. Google Scholar is the clear number one when it comes to academic search engines.
2. Microsoft Academic. It’s Microsoft answer to Google Scholar.
3. BASE.
4. CORE.
5. Science.gov.
6. Semantic Scholar.
7. Baidu Scholar.

Here are 17 search alternatives to Google.

• Bing. As of January 2020, Microsoft sites handled a quarter of all search queries in the United States.
• Yandex. Looking for a search perspective outside of the United States?
• CC Search.
• Swisscows.
• DuckDuckGo.
• StartPage.
• Search Encrypt.
• Gibiru.

Baidu. Baidu is the most famous search engine for expats in China and started as a close copy of Google.

Nine things you should never search for on Google, according to Reddit

• Fournier. Orlando Magic NBA player Evan Fournier’s nickname is “Never Google” and there’s a reason.
• Krokodil.
• Your favourite food.
• Mouth larva.
• Google.
• Calculus Bridge.
• Your e-mail address.
• Harlequin ichthyosis.

While it’s not possible to reveal who they are, you can at least use the same tools they’re using. So, while you can’t find out who searched for you on Google, you can set up alerts whenever your name appears on a website, in a forum, or on social networks.

The 20 Scariest Google Street View Images

• The Murder Dock.
• Did Google Street View Kill a Donkey?
• This Abandoned Infant.
• A Broken Face.
• The Tiki Demon of Nancy, France.
• This Van on Fire.
• A Japanese Ghost Town.
• A Violent Arrest.

Top 100 Google searches in the US

“Coronavirus” and “election results” were the top two global searches overall and the top two news searches of 2020, and President-elect Joe Biden was the most-searched person. Searches for “stimulus check” and “unemployment” also made the top 10 news topics as millions of Americans have lost their jobs.

Google Autocomplete is the easiest way to learn what keywords are being searched in Google. Just go to google.com, start typing in a phrase then you’ll see suggestions based on previous history.

Unsurprisingly, “coronavirus” topped the overall list. Coronavirus dominated this year’s top searches.

Mind-Blowing Google Statistics and Facts. There are over 70,000 Google searches each second. That’s almost 227 million an hour and about 5.4 billion Google searches per day.