Old'aVista is a search engine focused on personal websites that used to be hosted on services like Geocities, Angelfire, AOL, Xoom and so on. In no way it should compete with any of the famous search engines as it's focused on finding historic personal websites. The data was acquired by scraping pages from the Internet Archive. I basically used a node application I built with some starting links and I saved all the links I found in a queue and the text from the pages in the index. Old'aVista's design is based on the 1999 version of the defunct Altavista search engine. The name of the website itself is a wordplay on Altavista. My original idea as to get old search engines and make them functional again, but I decided to make this website its own thing while maintaining the nostalgia factor.
Our toolkit includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more. Most of the tools that we include can be used for free. Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit has a long tradition but our newest version is special: It is offered in collaboration with the Bellingcat volunteer community.
You can also download the tool lists for each category in csv format, or the whole site as a PDF.
A collection of stuff for finding and indexing open directories of files.