Top 10 Search Engines In The World
Which are
the 10 best and most popular search engines in the World? Besides Google and
Bing there are other search engines that may not be so well known but still
serve millions of search queries per day.
It may be a shocking surprise for many people but Google is not
the only search engine available on the Internet today! In fact, there are a
number of search engines that want to take Google’s throne but none of
them is ready (yet) to even pose a threat.
Nevertheless, there are search engines that are worth considering
and the top 10 are presented below after the break.
1. Google
No need for further introductions. The search engine giant holds
the first place in search with a stunning difference of 66% from second in
place Bing.
According to the latest netmarketshare report (January
2018) 74.52% of searches were powered by Google and only 7.98% by Bing.
Google is also dominating the mobile/tablet search engine market
share with 93%!
2. Bing
Bing is Microsoft’s attempt to challenge Google in the area of
search, but despite their efforts they still did not manage to convince users
that their search engine can produce better results than Google.
3. Yahoo
Since October 2011 Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Yahoo is still
the most popular email provider and according to reports holds
the fourth place in search.
4. Ask.com
Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, Ask.com receives approximately 0.05%
of the search share. ASK is based on a question/answer format where most
questions are answered by other users or are in the form of polls.
It also has the general search functionality but the results
returned lack quality compared to Google or even Bing and Yahoo.
5. AOL.com
According to netmarketshare the
old time famous AOL is still in the top 10 search engines with a market share
that is close to 0.04%. The AOL network includes many popular web sites like
engadget.com, techchrunch.com and the huffingtonpost.com.
6. Baidu
Baidu was founded in 2000 and it is the most popular search engine
in China
7. Wolframalpha
Wolframalpha is different
that all the other search engines. They market it as a Computational Knowledge
Engine which can give you facts and data for a number of topics. It can do all
sorts of calculations, for example if you enter “mortgage
2000” as input it will calculate your loan amount, interest paid etc.
based on a number of assumptions.
8. DuckDuckGo
Has a number of advantages over the other search engines. It has a
clean interface, it does not track users, it is not fully loaded with ads and
has a number of very nice features (only one page of results, you can search
directly other web sites etc).
I am sure that some of the features of duckduckgo will be used by
other search engines and with some proper funding duckduckgo can get a decent
search engine market share.
9. Internet Archive
archive.org is the internet archive search engine. You can
use it to find out how a web site looked since 1996. It is very useful tool if
you want to trace the history of a domain and examine how it has changed over
the years.
10. Yandex.ru
According to Alexa,
Yandex.ru is among the 30 most popular websites on the Internet with a ranking
position of 4 in Russian.
Yandex present themselves as a technology company that builds
intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. According to
Wikipedia, Yandex operates the largest search engine in Russia
As a final word, if you search “What is the best search engine?”
in any of the search engines listed above, you will get an answer that Google
is the best and most popular search engine and Bing is in the second place (on
a Global level).
These are the 10 best and most popular search engines on the
Internet today.
The list is by no means complete and for sure many more will be
created in the future but as far as the first places are concerned, Google and
Bing will hold the lead positions for years to come.
