it works! only 99.99$!

Is there any good search engines? I mean I've tried searching recently for a solution I referenced 3 months ago and it's disappeared from Google and Bing.

Shit, even looking up repair information for a household appliance if can't find the model before the newest and it all points to a sale page for the newest version.

Maybe AkJeeves!?

The only way crystals can heal you is if that crystal is salt and your illness is a salt deficiency.

scholar.google.com is where you want to go.

Also, in my Google-fu experience technical terms work well for finding better scholarly results.

I don't even get "did you mean" anymore. Just, we found more examples of this, so this must be what you meant.

Even DuckDuckGo straight-up tells you "we didn't find many results containing [blank]." Yeah. That's why I wrote [blank.]

Ever died from smallpox while holding a healing crystal?

Didn’t fucking think so 😎

For those looking for some Google alternatives:

• Qwant has a custom indexing strategy and is okay
• Brave Search ~uses Google and Bing~ EDIT: they use a custom index too
• Startpage uses Google and Bing and it’s prettier than Brave IMO
• SearX is ugly but has a lot of sources
• Perplexity AI tracks the shit out of you but it’s decent
• Kagi is customizable but it costs you

Feel free to add on any I missed or opinions on these; I haven’t used any extensively

EDIT: Ecosia for trees and DDG for Bing without ads

Why not just use Google scholar?

This scene live rent free in my head. Also fuckin Crystal Healing types make me look bad when I just think pretty rocks look nice

I'm not sure what exactly you're typing into the search field, but I don't anything like this. The top 3 sites I get for a search of "minerals" are wikipedia, australian museum, and britannica. Typing in "crystals" gets me a healthline article debunking crystal healing, but the following results are some woman's personal store and amazon. Lastly, being direct about wanting scientific articles gets me said articles...

Side note: Why are there so many people pushing for kagi in this thread and skipping over the fact that duckduckgo exists? It's kinda bizarre to see.

Aaaaannd this is why I use Kagi. The site ranking feature let's me block or down rank sketchy sites. (And lets you boost credible sites.)

As a gem and mineral collecting hobbyist I feel this pain so, so much.

God I had this issue looking for used wheels for my car. Like, actual wheels to use for a track day, but results showed nothing but simracing threads for used STEERING wheels.

It looks like OP tried to write $99.99 but got drunk and wrote it backwards

Like multivitamins? (Also contains minerals!)

Google decides what you want to see and what you want to see is right wing garbage.

Mullvad Leta?

Duckduckgo lite?

duckduckgo onion?

Brave search?

What are some others?

SerXing?

Startpage?

Several different very privacy friendly browsers have those in them by default.

"scientific data about minerals -crystal -healing" should do it

I thought crystal healing was limited to common minerals like quartz? Anything niche shouldn't be on their radar

Psyhub is pretty useful for most articles behind a paywall.

Good job little buddy!

IT'S BUCKET O NOTHING

Ah yes I love the science of rock and rock accessories