https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/they-are-scrubbing-the-internet-right
. . . It’s not always about being censored or not. Today’s algorithms include a range of tools that affect searchability and findability. For example, the Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump racked up an astonishing 34 million views before YouTube and Google tweaked their search engines to make it hard to discover, while even presiding over a technical malfunction that disabled viewing for many people. Faced with this, Rogan went to the platform X to post all three hours.
Navigating this thicket of censorship and quasi-censorship has become part of the business model of alternative media.
Those are just the headline cases. Beneath the headlines, there are technical events taking place that are fundamentally affecting the ability of any historian even to look back and tell what is happening. Incredibly, the service Archive.org which has been around since 1994 has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time – since October 8-10 – since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.
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In saving the suggestions above I found a list on my HD (prob from a 4chan thread, prob from awhile ago since I'm banned from there).
Not sure if any of these still work, and cannot speak for their trustworthiness or value...but perhaps a geekfrog or 2 might find of use:
theoldnet.com - A retro search engine for retro websites.
trace.moe - A search engine for anime screenshots. Won't work with crops. It will give episode and timestamp of a good screenshot.
filelisting.com - FileListing (pretty good at searching for torrents)
dedigger.com - dedigger (search for public files on Google Drive)
eyeofjustice.com/od - Open Directory Search Portal
mmnt.ru/int - Mamont FTP search engine
search.mibbit.com - search engine for IRC
searchftps.net - NAPALM FTP search engine
filepursuit.com - FilePursuit
lumpysoft.com - Google Index Search
searx.space - Online and offline Searx instances
musgle.com - Search music files through google
opendirsearch.abifog.com - Open Directory Search Portal
palined.com/search - Google Open Directory Search
snowfl.com - snowfl (searches various public torrent indexes)
libraries.io - Search open source packages, frameworks and tools...
gifcities.org - The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine
shodan.io - Search engine for IoT devices, you can access ones with no pw set
bugmenot.com - Find and share logins instead of registering an account for something you don't care about.
filechef.com - File finder using google dorks.
odcrawler.xyz - Open directory crawler.
alltheinternet.com - private, customizable alternative to Google.
all-io.net - All major search engines in one.
faganfinder.com - Quick pick search engine changer.
Wow! You're a treasure trove of info.
Wasn't me, was contribs of anons here and there. I don't think I've clicked more than 10% of these (time--never have it).