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Almost all occasionally, you may need to go into a new area, to conduct research or to quickly find a very specialized information. But the search engine doesn't always understand us. We try very hard to explain: we introduce large sentences to replace short phrases. We search through pages and links. And, probably, after a few hours, we find in some pdf document a request that should have been entered from the very beginning.
Sometimes, it's not always easy to Express your information needs in a search query. You may not have enough terminology, or you are not quite sure what you are looking for, and when you see the possible options, you will immediately understand what you need. Or it may be difficult to put what you're looking for into a concise search query at all.
We've put together OSINT tools that will make online research faster, more useful, and possibly more enjoyable. Most of the collected resources are in English, free of charge and without registration.
1. OneLook
This is a dictionary that selects words and phrases that somehow relate to your query. Here you can quickly find definitions of certain words — the result will come from different dictionaries.
2. Keyword Tool
The platform displays keywords for the entered query in any language and country. Some requests even show how popular they are, even though this service is paid for. You can search for keywords on Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, eBay, Play Store, Bing.
When searching on Google, you can, for example, select keywords that contain question words or prepositions. And on the left there are filters where you can search for keywords already in the resulting search results.
3. Answer the Public
Here you enter the word you are interested in and get 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 for about 3-4 queries a day.
It will help you understand what information you need by offering your own options. Allows you to find the exact site by navigating you from folder to folder and shortening the search area.
4. Web Directory
The selection here is not very large, but it can be useful. Each link has a short description from the platform's editors, which reduces the time required to view each resource.
5. Open Knowledge Map
The resource provides all materials with open access 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 content format: audio, books, maps, patents, reports, SOFTWARE, videos, research theses, and so on.
A feature of the resource is that it shows search results in the form of thematic circles. They touch and intersect. The closer the circles are to each other, the more related their themes will be. In the center are those that have the strongest subject similarity with all other circles on the map. On the right, you can search for keywords already within the resulting map. By hovering the mouse over a circle, you can see how many documents there are on the topic of this circle. If you click on the circle, it increases, and you can select a suitable document.
Moreover, the platform hasSOFTWAREthat allows you to visualize your own set of documents in the same way.
The downside is that the platform produces only the 100 most relevant results. Although for some, on the contrary, this is a plus, as it reduces the search time.
6. Carrot2
This is a search engine that distributes search results into thematic folders and shows them as paychart and trimap. You can choose the type of clustering algorithm. Right here:
By the way, if when searching, Carrot shows you this, then 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 the Treemap looks like if you search Carrot for information about metamodernism:
The platform more convenient that looking from 15 search engines (including Google, Yandex, Bing).
7. BizNar
BizNar is presented as a resource for finding business information: market research and various industries. The platform searches on the Deep web (not the same as the Dark web) — results are returned that are not indexed by the usual search engines. Includes search for patents and social networks.BizNar also packages the output in thematic folders and in the form of a paychart (click "visual" on the left).
After entering the query, there is a graph at the bottom left showing in what year how many materials on the topic were published. You can select a year, and the output will display publications only for this period.
8. World Wide Science
Search through international and national research databases. You can enter the request in any of the suggested languages (including Russian). If you want to receive email notifications about new content, you will need to register. However, this feature is only available for English sources.
The output can be filtered by various indicators, and it is also sorted by topic.
There is a map on the home page. When you click on the country of interest, a list of databases that the platform can search for is displayed.
9. Fagan Finder
The platform contains a huge number of different search resources, divided into groups. Here you will find, for example, search engines only for encyclopedias, only for documents, for articles from magazines, or, in the end, for presentations. In General search, you can search not only by images and videos, but also by audio or by groups and forums. On the first page, scroll through below and you can get short guides to each source.
What is collected here may not be found through a regular search engine, because the source of information may not be online, the search may not consider it important enough, or it may not be published in the form in which the search engine has access to it.
10. Hash At It
The tool searches by hashtags, keywords, URLS, and profile mentions. It immediately returns the latest results, but by selecting a specific social network in the filter, you can quickly see older results as well.
If you register on the site, you will be able to subscribe to a specific hashtag or request to immediately receive new posts on the topic.
11. Social Search
Searches for mentions in both social networks and search engines. Interestingly, the list of social networks that he searches for includes VK. Usually, foreign search engines do not include it. Here, too, you can set up e-mail notifications about new publications based on your request.
12. Watson News Explorer
This is a Bank with an update. Here you can explore how individuals, businesses, and news relate to each other. The platform will tell you which topics, people, and organizations are more or less related to your request. The map on the right shows what country is - the source of information, you could filter the results by country.
You can configure the search so that it will only search by people, companies, or non-profit organizations. And advanced search will allow you to find the relationship between two queries.
The resource provides data for the last month, and a time line is displayed at the bottom, when which materials were published.
This is a resource with all possible news, including in different languages. You can simply search by keywords for all messages, or you can choose a country and subject. Also, by the way, here you can search for radio and podcasts in different countries. If you click on "Classic" in the upper - right corner, you will see a more detailed search-everything is sorted by topic and sub-topic, and it is easier to search. There is a mobile app.
13. News Now
Here's all the latest news in one pile. The small checkboxes next to the title indicate where the message is coming from. You can filter news by country or topic. You can also see which news items are most viewed and read here.
14. All You Can Read
Choose a country, and the issue gives all possible online media that are available in this country. Plus, you can sort by specific topics. One of the largest news resources with magazines and Newspapers from all over the world. However, keyword search is not provided here.
15. Google Alert
The tool automatically notifies you by e-mail about new materials on the topic. In order to use it, you need a Google account.
And so, we enter the request that we want to follow. Open "More options" and see how we can configure our search. "Auto-select" here means that information will come from all kinds of sources. But you can also choose one of them. For example, you are only interested in new books on the topic. "Only the best results" in the "Quantity" section means that information will only come from resources that have a good reputation.
16. Visual ping
Are you waiting for the results of the contest, discounts on air tickets, or are you monitoring changes in legislation? This resource will send you a notification when something changes on the link you specified. The program takes a screenshot and checks it against the previous one. This is how it notices changes.
The Chrome extension helps you create new notifications directly from the site you want to follow. You can also create group notifications in Slack (for more information on how to set them up, see the FAQ at the very bottom). It's a great tool for tracking changes from competitors.
The "actions before checking" function helps you automate a specific action before a new screenshot is checked. For example, you need to enter a password, close the pop-up window, or click on a button. Learn more about how to use it here and here (more advanced usage).
You can set up notifications so that they are sent to you only when the keyword you specified appears.
The free version has restrictions on the number of checks.
17. Watch That Page
This resource is simpler than the previous one. For example, it doesn't analyze changes in images, only text and links. However, for personal accounts, you can perform an almost unlimited number of checks here.
All updates to the specified sites are sent in one email. But you can also divide links by topic — the resource will send them in separate emails. For each site, you can choose: you just want to find out that something has changed there and check it yourself; or you can immediately receive these changes in an email. This section explainshow to add new tracking sites faster.
18. Selection Search
Install the extension → select the text you are interested in → the extension offers options where you can search for information for this query.
19. Infinite Scroll for Google
Here everything is very simple — you don't need to click on the next page of the search results again. You just scroll down, and the extension automatically opens new results for you.
20. Search Preview
The extension allows you to immediately see what the site looks like, so that you don't need to visit it in vain. Supports Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and Bing.
21. Wolfram Alpha
This is a kind of search engine that does not search for resources where you can find answers, it immediately gives answers. It analyzes various types of files, makes complex calculations, gives accurate characteristics of the selected object, compares it, and so on.
To understand how to work with it, the resource offers application examples. Wolfram Alpha is perfect if you need to quickly find out some accurate data on work in the field of Finance, sociology, medicine, transport, chemistry, engineering, statistics, linguistics, and so on. It can be used for training and just for answering everyday questions.
22. Gigablast
This is a simple and intuitive search engine, there are no ads, there is privacy and a directory of sites. As well as a large list of dorks for efficient search.
23. Symbol Hound
A search engine that does not ignore special characters such as&,%, and π, so it is useful when searching for information about the selected programming language.
24. Digle
In the end, you can ask someone to find the information you need for money or earn money on the search yourself.
Sometimes, it's not always easy to Express your information needs in a search query. You may not have enough terminology, or you are not quite sure what you are looking for, and when you see the possible options, you will immediately understand what you need. Or it may be difficult to put what you're looking for into a concise search query at all.
We've put together OSINT tools that will make online research faster, more useful, and possibly more enjoyable. Most of the collected resources are in English, free of charge and without registration.
They will help you understand what to look for in General
1. OneLook
This is a dictionary that selects words and phrases that somehow relate to your query. Here you can quickly find definitions of certain words — the result will come from different dictionaries.
2. Keyword Tool
The platform displays keywords for the entered query in any language and country. Some requests even show how popular they are, even though this service is paid for. You can search for keywords on Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, eBay, Play Store, Bing.
When searching on Google, you can, for example, select keywords that contain question words or prepositions. And on the left there are filters where you can search for keywords already in the resulting search results.
3. Answer the Public
Here you enter the word you are interested in and get 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 for about 3-4 queries a day.
The handle will lead you to the desired source
These are site reference pointers. In them, sites are divided into thematic folders. You need to choose a topic of interest and see what the platform's editors have carefully selected for you.
It will help you understand what information you need by offering your own options. Allows you to find the exact site by navigating you from folder to folder and shortening the search area.
4. Web Directory
The selection here is not very large, but it can be useful. Each link has a short description from the platform's editors, which reduces the time required to view each resource.
Sort the output by topic groups
5. Open Knowledge Map
The resource provides all materials with open access 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 content format: audio, books, maps, patents, reports, SOFTWARE, videos, research theses, and so on.
A feature of the resource is that it shows search results in the form of thematic circles. They touch and intersect. The closer the circles are to each other, the more related their themes will be. In the center are those that have the strongest subject similarity with all other circles on the map. On the right, you can search for keywords already within the resulting map. By hovering the mouse over a circle, you can see how many documents there are on the topic of this circle. If you click on the circle, it increases, and you can select a suitable document.
Moreover, the platform hasSOFTWAREthat allows you to visualize your own set of documents in the same way.
The downside is that the platform produces only the 100 most relevant results. Although for some, on the contrary, this is a plus, as it reduces the search time.
6. Carrot2
This is a search engine that distributes search results into thematic folders and shows them as paychart and trimap. You can choose the type of clustering algorithm. Right here:
By the way, if when searching, Carrot shows you this, then 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 the Treemap looks like if you search Carrot for information about metamodernism:
The platform more convenient that looking from 15 search engines (including Google, Yandex, Bing).
7. BizNar
BizNar is presented as a resource for finding business information: market research and various industries. The platform searches on the Deep web (not the same as the Dark web) — results are returned that are not indexed by the usual search engines. Includes search for patents and social networks.BizNar also packages the output in thematic folders and in the form of a paychart (click "visual" on the left).
After entering the query, there is a graph at the bottom left showing in what year how many materials on the topic were published. You can select a year, and the output will display publications only for this period.
8. World Wide Science
Search through international and national research databases. You can enter the request in any of the suggested languages (including Russian). If you want to receive email notifications about new content, you will need to register. However, this feature is only available for English sources.
The output can be filtered by various indicators, and it is also sorted by topic.
There is a map on the home page. When you click on the country of interest, a list of databases that the platform can search for is displayed.
Everything possible in one place
9. Fagan Finder
The platform contains a huge number of different search resources, divided into groups. Here you will find, for example, search engines only for encyclopedias, only for documents, for articles from magazines, or, in the end, for presentations. In General search, you can search not only by images and videos, but also by audio or by groups and forums. On the first page, scroll through below and you can get short guides to each source.
What is collected here may not be found through a regular search engine, because the source of information may not be online, the search may not consider it important enough, or it may not be published in the form in which the search engine has access to it.
It will find a mention of your query in all popular social networks and not only that
10. Hash At It
The tool searches by hashtags, keywords, URLS, and profile mentions. It immediately returns the latest results, but by selecting a specific social network in the filter, you can quickly see older results as well.
If you register on the site, you will be able to subscribe to a specific hashtag or request to immediately receive new posts on the topic.
11. Social Search
Searches for mentions in both social networks and search engines. Interestingly, the list of social networks that he searches for includes VK. Usually, foreign search engines do not include it. Here, too, you can set up e-mail notifications about new publications based on your request.
Quick search for news to keep up to date with all the trends on the topic of interest
12. Watson News Explorer
This is a Bank with an update. Here you can explore how individuals, businesses, and news relate to each other. The platform will tell you which topics, people, and organizations are more or less related to your request. The map on the right shows what country is - the source of information, you could filter the results by country.
You can configure the search so that it will only search by people, companies, or non-profit organizations. And advanced search will allow you to find the relationship between two queries.
The resource provides data for the last month, and a time line is displayed at the bottom, when which materials were published.
This is a resource with all possible news, including in different languages. You can simply search by keywords for all messages, or you can choose a country and subject. Also, by the way, here you can search for radio and podcasts in different countries. If you click on "Classic" in the upper - right corner, you will see a more detailed search-everything is sorted by topic and sub-topic, and it is easier to search. There is a mobile app.
13. News Now
Here's all the latest news in one pile. The small checkboxes next to the title indicate where the message is coming from. You can filter news by country or topic. You can also see which news items are most viewed and read here.
14. All You Can Read
Choose a country, and the issue gives all possible online media that are available in this country. Plus, you can sort by specific topics. One of the largest news resources with magazines and Newspapers from all over the world. However, keyword search is not provided here.
They will deliver the necessary information directly to your e-mail address
These tools will track the appearance of new content on the topic, as well as help you monitor changes on the sites you are interested in.15. Google Alert
The tool automatically notifies you by e-mail about new materials on the topic. In order to use it, you need a Google account.
And so, we enter the request that we want to follow. Open "More options" and see how we can configure our search. "Auto-select" here means that information will come from all kinds of sources. But you can also choose one of them. For example, you are only interested in new books on the topic. "Only the best results" in the "Quantity" section means that information will only come from resources that have a good reputation.
16. Visual ping
Are you waiting for the results of the contest, discounts on air tickets, or are you monitoring changes in legislation? This resource will send you a notification when something changes on the link you specified. The program takes a screenshot and checks it against the previous one. This is how it notices changes.
The Chrome extension helps you create new notifications directly from the site you want to follow. You can also create group notifications in Slack (for more information on how to set them up, see the FAQ at the very bottom). It's a great tool for tracking changes from competitors.
The "actions before checking" function helps you automate a specific action before a new screenshot is checked. For example, you need to enter a password, close the pop-up window, or click on a button. Learn more about how to use it here and here (more advanced usage).
You can set up notifications so that they are sent to you only when the keyword you specified appears.
The free version has restrictions on the number of checks.
17. Watch That Page
This resource is simpler than the previous one. For example, it doesn't analyze changes in images, only text and links. However, for personal accounts, you can perform an almost unlimited number of checks here.
All updates to the specified sites are sent in one email. But you can also divide links by topic — the resource will send them in separate emails. For each site, you can choose: you just want to find out that something has changed there and check it yourself; or you can immediately receive these changes in an email. This section explainshow to add new tracking sites faster.
Extensions that will speed up your regular search
18. Selection Search
Install the extension → select the text you are interested in → the extension offers options where you can search for information for this query.
19. Infinite Scroll for Google
Here everything is very simple — you don't need to click on the next page of the search results again. You just scroll down, and the extension automatically opens new results for you.
20. Search Preview
The extension allows you to immediately see what the site looks like, so that you don't need to visit it in vain. Supports Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and Bing.
What else might be useful
21. Wolfram Alpha
This is a kind of search engine that does not search for resources where you can find answers, it immediately gives answers. It analyzes various types of files, makes complex calculations, gives accurate characteristics of the selected object, compares it, and so on.
To understand how to work with it, the resource offers application examples. Wolfram Alpha is perfect if you need to quickly find out some accurate data on work in the field of Finance, sociology, medicine, transport, chemistry, engineering, statistics, linguistics, and so on. It can be used for training and just for answering everyday questions.
22. Gigablast
This is a simple and intuitive search engine, there are no ads, there is privacy and a directory of sites. As well as a large list of dorks for efficient search.
23. Symbol Hound
A search engine that does not ignore special characters such as&,%, and π, so it is useful when searching for information about the selected programming language.
24. Digle
In the end, you can ask someone to find the information you need for money or earn money on the search yourself.
