If you hear the word “Search Engine”, what’s the first thing come to your mind? yes, yes, I can read your brain and I know, it’s Google!
Google is undisputably the best search engine and 80% of the total searches are dominated by google and the reason is pretty obvious. The easy interface, accurate results, thousands of search options, and of course the quick results are the reason that Google is in the top position and doesn’t seem to be leaving this position for at least next few years.
Although Google is unbeatable and the best search engine but it’s not the ONLY search engine we have. Do you know there are many other search engines like bing, Duck Duck go, ask.com and several others, which are also good and offers almost all the features as Google??
In this article, we will walk you through the 10 best search engines in the world which you probably didn’t know about. So, read along!
Top 10 Best Search Engines:
Below is the list of top 10 best search engines, which are reliable, fast and offers great results. All the search engines have their own features and specialties. Let’s begin the list with Google itself, followed by other top search engines.
1. Google
Google is the search giant and we all use google at least 2-3 times a day for searching various queries. According to the reports, google process at least 3.5 to 4 billion search queries every day. Google has the world’s largest database and it holds the 80% share of the entire searches made on the internet. Google was first introduced as the only search engine website in 1997, but till then 20 years are passed and now more than 100 products are under it making the Google world’s number one website and search engine.
Since we grow using it, it is the best and widely used search engine. And of course it consistently brings new algorithm so you will always find what you’re looking for. Google does collect the data including what we are searching and site we do visit, but that perhaps Google uses to make the service even better and suggest more accurate results. Hopefully, you can delete your search history and even can made Google to stop tracking or saving your search activity.
2. Bing
Bing is the second largest search engine after Google. Bing was first introduced in 2009 by Microsoft and it comes as the default search engine in all the Microsoft products like Microsoft’s web browsers and windows phone.
Bing offers almost all the features as google and it’s trying its best to give Google the fair completion. In the US, the total of 64.5% search share is held by google, while the bing holds 19.8% search share.
3. Yahoo
After Google and Bing, the third popular search engine is the Yahoo! Yahoo used to be the second best search engine with 1-2 billion searches every month. But with the introduction of bing, yahoo lost its position and became the third largest search engine.
Yahoo now is acquired by Bing i.e Microsoft and it is available in more than 40 languages. Besides, yahoo also comes as the default browser with Mozilla firefox.
4. Duck duck go
Not many people know that Duck Duck go is one of the best search engines and is known for its privacy. Unlike google and other search engines, Duck duck go doesn’t track the user activities and maintains the user privacy. This is the reason, duck duck process more than 10 million searches a day.
Duck duck go, doesn’t have its own database to serve user queries, instead, it uses the database of search engines like bing, Yandex, yahoo and aggregates their search results and serve users. A full featured search engine that lets you search the web and does not track what you search and anything that you are concerned.
5. Ask.com
The idea behind the launch of ask.com was to represent it as a question answer website when it was first founded in 1995. But later, it also became one of the largest search engines in all over the world.
It has billions of monthly users which use ask.com to solve their queries. Ask.com also works like regular search engines and offers several search result depending upon the query made. It also uses the third party databases to solve user’s query.
6. Yandex
The 6th best search engine is the Yandex. Yandex was introduced in 1997, and it is also known as Russian google. Over 150 Million search queries are processed by Yandex every day and over 55 million users from Russia alone use Yandex as their search engine on the regular basis.
Yandex has quite similar interface as google and it also offers other search features like Images, Videos, Mail, Maps etc.
7. Baidu
Like Yandex, Baidu is Chinese Google. As china has the largest population on earth, most of the Chinese people (over 80%) use Baidu as their preferred search engine making it one of the biggest search engines of all time. Baidu was first introduced on January 1, 2000, and as of 2016, Baidu holds the no. 4 positions on Alexa rankings.
8. Wolfram alpha
Wolfram alpha was developed by Wolfram Research in may 2009. This search engine was specifically designed keeping the math geeks in mind. Wolfram alpha is not like other search engines which offer thousands of web page on every query made by a user. Instead, it answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced curated data.
The Wolfram alpha search engine offers curated data and it curates the data from a lot of reputed and trustworthy colleges, publications, libraries, Crunchbase, FAA, and from many other reliable sources.
9. IxQuick
IxQuick is another great search engines. There are many reasons that IxQuick has over 5.5 to 6 millions active users a day. The most important reason is the user privacy.
IxQuick takes user privacy very seriously and never saves any user details. Also, it supports 12+ different languages and shows results in images, videos, and web pages like google.
10. Dogpile
Last but not the least, the 10th best search engine we have is the Dogpile. Dogpile doesn’t have its own database to process user search queries, instead, it aggregates the results from the other big search engines like google, yahoo and uses their database to answer search queries.
Like Google, Dogpile also shows results in images, videos, maps, and news!
Search More with these Best search engines
So, these were the top 10 search engines in the world. With this, we have come to the end of the list. I’m hoping this article made you learn something new.
If, for any reason, you do not want to use google to ask your queries, don’t push yourself to use the google, we have many other search engines which I just told you about. Use any of the search engines and enjoy searching! If you found the article helpful, feel free to share it with your friends and spread the knowledge!