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- Paul Gil
- Duck Duck Go Search. Does not track or store user information. Fast searches. Optional one-month search window. What We Don't Like. Search results are not dated.
- Google Search. Favors fresh content. Ranks blogs and services. Accessible on any device. What We Don't Like. Collects information on users. Hidden content might damage ranking.
- Yippy Search. Blocks undesirable websites. Search result previews. Cloud of related topics in results. What We Don't Like. Cannot turn off the filtering process.
- Bing Search. Favors older, established web pages. Ranks home pages, not blogs. Crawls hidden and non-hidden content equally. What We Don't Like.
- Founder
- Measurable SEO
- Bing.com. Screenshot from Bing.com. As of December 2023, Microsoft Bing sites handled 7.1% of all search queries in the United States. One could argue that Bing outperforms Google in certain respects.
- Perplexity.ai. Screenshot from Perplexity.ai, December 2023. Perplexity.ai, founded in 2022, is an innovative alternative to Google that provides contextually rich answers and has 10 million monthly active users.
- You.com. Screenshot from You.com. You.com is an AI-powered search engine founded by Richard Socher, a prominent natural language processing (NLP) researcher and former chief scientist of Salesforce.
- Yep.com. Screenshot from Yep.com. Yep.com (by Ahrefs) promotes itself as being a search engine with a difference that emphasizes user privacy by not tracking users or selling their data.
- Co-Founder
- Beanstalk Internet Marketing
- Google. With over 81.74% of the search market share, one hardly needs to introduce readers to Google. However, it clearly needs to head up any list of search engines.
- YouTube. YouTube was founded in 2005 by veterans of PayPal and purchased just over a year later by none other than Google, giving it control over the top two search engines on this list.
- Amazon. Amazon was launched in 1995 and is considered one of the first large companies to sell goods online. It started out selling books online but expanded rapidly.
- Microsoft Bing. Bing replaced MSN Search as Microsoft’s answer to Google launched in 2009. It currently has 3.38% of the search market share worldwide and 7.73% in the US.
- Michael Muchmore
- Lead Software Analyst
- Brave Search. $0.00 at Brave. Coming from the innovative creators of the privacy-focused Brave web browser, Brave Search claims “unmatched privacy.”
- DuckDuckGo. $0.00 at DuckDuckGo. The biggest name in private search deserves your attention. DuckDuckGo (or DDG, to its fans) has a simple privacy policy: “We don’t collect or share any of your personal information.”
- Ecosia. $0.00 at Ecosia. Ecosia makes people feel good about their web searches because it contributes to planting trees in environmentally sensitive areas.
- Microsoft Bing. $0.00 at Microsoft Store. For a search experience that's as close to Google in terms of richness of information on the result page—and in many cases even more useful instant result cards—Bing is it.
Oct 31, 2023 · Learn about different types of search engines, from mainstream to privacy-focused to international, and their features and benefits. Compare Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, Baidu and more.
- Jeff Rumage
- Staff Reporter
Jul 25, 2023 · Learn about the most popular and privacy-focused search engines, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and more. Compare their features, sources, and market shares in this comprehensive guide.
Aug 23, 2019 · Learn about different search engines other than Google, such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and more. Compare their features, benefits, and drawbacks for privacy, speed, and functionality.
