1. Google
Google Search Engine is the best search engine in
the world and it is also one of most popular product from Google. Almost 70
percent of Search Engine market has been acquired by Google. The tech giant has
always trying to improve the search engine algorithm to provide best results to
the end-user.
According to Alexa, google.com is the most
visited site in the whole web.
2. Bing
Bing is Microsoft’s answer to Google and it was
launched in 2009. Bing is also a good and best search engine. Bing is the
default search engine in Microsoft’s web browser. The team behind Bing is
always thrive to make it a better search engine but still does not able to give
Google a slight competition. This Microsoft’s search engine provides different
services including image, web and video search along with maps.
3. Yahoo
Both Yahoo & Bing are not giving competition
to Google but giving competition to each other. According to latest report on
netmarketshare, Yahoo have a market share of 7.68 percent. Yahoo is still a
leader in among most popular free email providers but does not able to convince
users in search engine area.
4. Baidu
Baidu is Chinese web search engine founded in
January 1, 2000. This web search is made to deliver results for website, audio
files and images. Also Baidu has Alexa Rank of 4 . It also provides some other
services including maps, news, cloud storage and much more.
It is also one of the most used search engine in
China.
5. AOL
Aol.com is also among the top search engines in
the world. It has market share of 0.59 percent. Verizon Communication has
bought AOL for $4.4 billion. It was started back in 1983 as Control Video
Corporation. It was named America Online in 1991 and in 2009 as AOL Inc.
In fact AOL is a global mass media company which
is based in New York. The company also provides advertising services as AOL
Advertising and AOL Platform.
6. Ask.com
Ask.com was previously known ask Ask Jeeves. Its
search results are based on question answering web format. It was founded
in 1995. In fact, it is a question & answer community. Here you can
get the answers for your question and it integrates a large amount of archive
data to answer your question. With ask.com, you will not get as better results
you get in Google, Bing and Yahoo.
If their resources don’t have the answer than it
takes help from a particular third-party search engine.
7. Excite
Most of us don’t know about a search engine named
“Excite”. Even I was unaware about it before got to know while researching
about this topic. Excite is an online service portal. It provide internet
services like email, search engine, news, instant messaging and weather
updates. It was launched in 1995.
8. DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine known for
protecting the privacy of the users. In order to generate search results, they
have partnered with Yahoo, Bing and Yummly. It was founded back in 2008
by Gabriel Weinberg. Its revenue come from Yahoo-Bing search
alliance network and Affiliates.
9. WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is computational search engine which
does not give list of documents or web pages as search results. But its results
are based on facts & data about that query. It’s also called a
computational knowledge engine. It was launched in 2009 and based on Mathematica.
10. Yandex
Yandex is most used search engine in Russia. In
fact it is an Russian internet company. It was launched in 1997. Yandex also
has a great presence in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkey. It also
provides services like Yandex Maps, Yandex Music, online translator, Yandex
Money and many other services.