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24 alternatives to Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

Holds up a mirror to our time to see if search can keep up

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Smarter Than You Think▲128
How tech boosts our cognitive abilities
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Decoded▲62
The science behind why we buy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Data Smart▲76
Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Big Data▲73
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work & Think
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Cool▲67
How the brain's hidden quest for cool drives our economy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Think with Google▲142
Put Google research and insight behind your thinking.
2014 · business.google.com · its alternatives →
7
The Organized Mind▲70
Thinking straight in the age of information overload
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Organized Mind▲65
Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
9
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing▲55
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to▲66
Information, networks, complexity to understand Economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Nonsense▲59
The power of not knowing
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
12
Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
The Signal and the Noise▲73
Why so many predictions fail - but some don't
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Smarter Faster Better▲83
The secrets of being productive in life and business
2016 · hudsonbooksellers.com · its alternatives →
15
Data Analysis with Open Source Tools▲69
How to think about data
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Tubes▲54
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
The Internet of Us▲3
Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
How Will We Explore Books in the 21st Century?▲16
2016 · blog.archive.org · its alternatives →
19
Public Parts▲83
How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
20
Data and Goliath▲67
The hidden battles to collect your data and control your wo…
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
The Distracted Mind▲72
Ancient brains in a high-tech world
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
Naked Statistics▲69
Build intuition around data
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Reading with the Right Brain▲62
Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
24
Little Bets▲89
How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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