Search Engines is a web-based computer program that finds pdf documents, Images, Videos, and HTML pages for specified keywords and returns the high-quality results of any webpage containing those keywords. Web engines crawled and indexed the billions of web pages (including Images, Videos, PDF documents much more) and show the results depending upon their importance. The world's most popular engine is Google end of 2016 62+ billion pages indexed by Google. The top 5 safe free search engines are Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com, AOL.
1 Google.com Alexa rank = 1 Similarweb rank = 1
Google.com was developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in September 1998. 67.47% search market control by google inc. The company provides thousand of products and services like email, Google+, Google Search, Google Drive, Chrome, Youtube, Blogger, Android. Pagerank and link building is the most popular algorithm provided by Google. The company reported 96% of revenue was derived from its advertising programs. Using Google you can search images, videos, news, maps. Over 1.1+ billion WorldWide unique visitors use this website and over 55,976 employees work in this company. In 2005 google develop a desktop and mobile mapping service. It offers street maps, satellite imagery. Company CEO = Sundar Pichai. Company revenue US $68.83 billion in 2015. Net Income US $16.889 billion. Company total equity = $108.34 billion. Total employees = 59,976 (Q3 2016).
2 Bing.com Alexa rank = 28 Similarweb rank = 52
Bing.com was developed by Microsoft in June 2009. Bing offers a three-column display format first column for traditional search results, the second column shows structured data and in the third column, data shows provides from Twitter and Facebook. Bing offers some additional features such as interface, media, local info, integration with Hotmail, integration with Facebook, integration with apple, integration with window8. Bing entertainment service allows visitors to View Movies, Tv shows, Music, and Games. Bing finance and local services provide complete information about the stock market and local business details and reviews. The images and videos search algorithm enables users to quickly search most relevant photographs and videos. Bing's e-commerce market features enable users to find hotels, flight tickets, and online products. 54.6 million USA unique visitors use this website.
3 Yahoo.com Alexa rank = 6 Site URL = http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo is a web portal developed by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1994. According to Comscore, 196 million US visitors use yahoo. Yahoo provides Sports information, news, Music, Videos, finance, messenger, mail, maps. Yahoo offers communication services like messenger and mail, yahoo mail service offers 10Gb storage. the company offers some social networking services like Flickr, yahoo buzz, yahoo personals. End of 2010 yahoo offers mobile services like mobile blogging and messaging. Yahoo supports the e-commerce market and small businesses. Company CEO Marissa Mayer and chairman Maynard Webb. with yahoo service, you can access more than one service such as mail, finance, world news, image hosting, watching movies cricket online. Company revenue = US $1.69 billion | Total assets = US $16.80 billion | Total employees = 14,453.
4 Baidu.com Alexa rank = 4 Site URL = http://www.baidu.com
Baidu was founded by Robin Li and Eric Xu in January 2000. It indexed over 81 million images, 13 million audio and video files, 751 million web pages. It is the 5th popular web crawler in the world and No 1 in China. Baidu company provides several services such as - Baidu cloud is the most powerful cloud-based service it offers 3 TB free online storage. Baidu post bar is another online community where users can share knowledge and ideas. Baidu image and video search services offer millions of multimedia files. Baidu offer social networking service users can post images, blogs, videos through this service.
5 Yandex.com Alexa rank = 1,257 Site URL = http://www.yandex.com
Yandex.com russian based engine developed by Arkady Vlozh and Llya Segalovich. According comscore 56 million users from all over the world use Yandex. Company revenue = $39.4 billion | Operating income = $13.3 billion | Net income = $13.6 billion | Total assets = $34 billion | Total equity = $28.89 billion | Total employees = 5,432.
6 Ask.com Alexa rank = 106 Site URL = http://www.ask.com
The Ask was founded by David Warthen and Garrett Gruener in 1995. Ask is the most popular question answering site, later it adds an image and video search facility. Ask browser toolbar can appear as an extra bar added to any type of browser window. According to quantcast 33 million US users use this site.
7 AOL.com Alexa rank = 243 Site URL = http://www.AOL.com
AOL is a mass media corporation founded by Steve Case, Marc Sheriff, Jim Kimsey. This company invests in many websites. AOL major acquisitions Techcrunch, Engadget, MapQuest, The Huffington post. AOL search facility powered by google inc. AOL also offers News, Lifestyle, Sports, Finance, Entertainment services. Company revenue = $2.19 billion | Net Income = $1.059 billion | Total assets = $2.799 billion | Total employees = 5,987.
8 DuckDuckgo Alexa rank = 609 Site URL = http://www.duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg in September 2008. This website uses data from Wikipedia, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex. It puts privacy first and doesn't log user information and does not store IP addresses.
9 Sogou.com Alexa rank = 58 Site URL = http://www.sogou.com
Soso.com is a web-based Chinese web crawler later this company was owned by Tencent inc. So discontinued services and now redirects to Sogou.com.
10 Web crawler Alexa rank = 2,486 Site URL = http://webcrawler.com
Webcrawler.com was founded by Brian Pinkerton in April 1994. It was the first fully indexed secure meta engine, that fetched good results from Yahoo! inc, Google, Bing search, About.com, Ask.com, and some others. Web crawler offers all types of results like multimedia (including videos, images, local business information, and news). Web crawlers show advertising results at the top and bottom of the page, and all organic results show in the middle of the page.
11 Wow.com Alexa rank = 2,104 Site URL = http://www.wow.com
WOW.com powered by Google, provide a quick link for the most popular websites in the world. According to quantcast 5.5 million US unique visitors use wow to find awesome stuff. WOW.com was developed by AOL company. This engine searches images based on high-quality pixels and their width, height, and formats.
12 Info.com Alexa rank = 8,574 Site URL = http://www.info.com
Info.com is an image, video, news, and Html page finder and fetched results from Google, Open Directory, Yahoo and Bing, Ask. Info.com offers a meta engine that allows you to search multiple leading sources at once, returning more comprehensive and relevant results fast. Info provides some plugins for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome. Using it users can easily access millions of images, videos, employment opportunities. Info.com online comparison shopping service enables users to compare products, prices, and buy products.
13 Infospace Alexa rank = 14,246 Site URL = http://www.infospace.com
61 million unique visitors use this website. Infospace was founded by Rich Skrenta in 2007. 5 million US visitors use this site it offer a downable browser search toolbar. Infospace use the dynamic inference graph algorithm and slashtag filters.
- Excite.com Alexa rank = 8,347 | Quantcast US rank = NA | Compete US rank = NA
- Dogpile.com Alexa rank = 6,371 | Quantcast USA rank = 4,161 | Compete US rank = 2,089
- Lycos.com Alexa rank = 15,114 | Quantcast US rank = 14,878 | Compete US rank = 15,185
- Contenko.com Alexa rank = 132K| Quantcast US rank = 143K | Compete US rank = 123K
Comparison of Best Search Engines
| Best Search Engines | Company name | Pages indexed | Advertise ments | Daily direct queries | Queries count | Running non free JS | Software distribution license |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google.com | Over 63.2 billion | Yes | Over 413 million | Yes | No | Proprietary | |
| Bing.com | Microsoft | Over 31.02 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Yahoo Search | Yahoo! | Over 24.2 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Baidu Search | Baidu | Over 771 million | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Yandex Search | Yandex | Over 2.2 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| SoSo | Tencent | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | No | No | Proprietary |
| DuckDuckGo | DuckDuckGo | NA | Optional | 7.6 million | No | No | Mixed |
| Gigablast | NA | Over 1.2 billion | No | Unknown | Yes | No | Free |
| Best Search Engines | Server's location(s) | Https Support | Proxy gateway search links available | IP address tracking | Browser tracking | Information sharing | Dedicated servers |
| USA | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | |
| Bing | USA/China | Yes(SSL blocked in China) | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
| Yahoo search | USA | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
| Baidu | China & Japan | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | NA |
| Yandex | Russia | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | NA |
| SoSo | China | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | NA |
| DuckDuckGo | USA | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | NA |
| Gigablast | USA | No | No | No | No | No | NA |
List of Search Engines
| Rank | General Search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google.com | US, India, Brazil, UK | 1 | 1 | 71.78% | 11% | 181M | Multilingual |
| 2 | Yahoo.com | US, UK, France, India, Taiwan | 4 | 4 | 64.76% | 16.96% | 161M | Multilingual |
| 3 | Baidu.com | China | 5 | 10 | 62.92% | 8.1% | 1.5M | Multilingual |
| 4 | Bing.com | US, France | 25 | 13 | 68.87% | 4.77% | 70M | Multilingual |
| 5 | Sogou.com | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong | 165 | 598 | 48.89% | 32.27% | 401K | Chinese |
| 6 | Duckduckgo | US, France, UK, Germany | 567 | 578 | 93.42% | 2.43% | 1.8M | Multilingual |
| 7 | Youdao.com | China | 623 | 1,645 | 61.12% | 13.78% | 231K | Chinese |
| 8 | Yandex.com | Russia, Turkey, Germany, Ukraine | 2,174 | 1,921 | 61.12% | 13.20% | 551K | Multilingual |
| 9 | Go.com | US, Canada, Venezuela, UK | 81 | 115 | 63.31% | 16.89% | 52M | NA |
| 10 | Search.aol | US, UK, Germany, China | 152 | 94 | 68.32% | 7.66% | 19M | English |
| 11 | Lycos.com | US, UK, Canada, Germany | 9,856 | 13,246 | 54.54% | 22.92% | 351K | NA |
| 12 | Qwant.com | France, Germany, Belgium | 22,765 | 10,124 | 89.78% | 7.01% | NA | NA |
| Rank | Metasearch Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Webcrawler | US, India, Canada, Indonesia | 998 | 985 | 7.87% | 91.22% | 4.5M | English |
| 2 | kayak.com | US, Canada, Spain, Israel | 567 | 1,432 | 34.33% | 26.43% | 7M | Multilingual |
| 3 | Excite.com | US, Canada, UK, Germany | 7,932 | 8,583 | 64.12% | 11.34% | 512K | English |
| 4 | ixquick.com | US, Germany, France, Netherlands | 9,897 | 3,123 | 87.24% | 2.52% | 289K | Multilingual |
| 5 | Info.com | US, Canada, India, Malaysia | 8,342 | 11,342 | 13.24% | 87.35% | 1M | English |
| 6 | Zoo.com | Germany, Brazil, Mexico, India | 32,564 | 13,478 | 96.54% | 2.66% | 37K | NA |
| 7 | Yippy.com | US, UK, France, Canada | 127,328 | 212,976 | 41.22% | 1.23% | 25K | English |
| Rank | Job search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed.com | US, Canada, Australia, Germany | 159 | 212 | 36.18% | 40.56% | 18M |
| 2 | Naukri.com | India, Japan, United Arab Emirates | 445 | 1,311 | 54.87% | 23.78% | 120K |
| 3 | Glassdoor.com | US, India, Canada, UK | 513 | 1,421 | 34.89% | 43.21% | 11M |
| 4 | Monster.com | US, India, Canada, Philippines | 877 | 1,786 | 37.68% | 43.25% | 10M |
| 5 | Careerbuilder | US, Uk, India, Canada, Philippines | 1,578 | 1,896 | 47.81% | 20.19% | 6M |
| 6 | Jobstreet.com | Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore | 2,170 | 2,765 | 51.86% | 6.89% | 61K |
| 7 | careers.yahoo | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 8 | Incruit.com | Korea, Venezuela, Thailand | 2,432 | 3,123 | 19.45% | 67.72% | NA |
| 9 | Dice.com | US, India, Canada, Eritrea | 4,231 | 5,865 | 48.97% | 12.89% | 2.2M |
| 10 | Adzuna.co.uk | UK, US, Ireland, France | 18,475 | 22,345 | 38.89% | 29.64% | 145K |
| 11 | Eluta.ca | Canada, India, France | 49,787 | 57,987 | 29.89% | 51.78% | NA |
| 12 | Linkup.com | US, India, Canada, UK | 81,478 | 84,875 | 21.98% | 50.98% | 231K |
| Rank | BitTorrent search Engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torrentz.eu | 185 | 484 | 64.89% | 21.32% | 2M |
| 2 | iSohunt.to | 3,432 | 1,786 | 25.76% | 34.00% | 411K |
| 3 | Btdigg.org | 9,543 | 6,212 | 24.87% | 17.11% | 65K |
| 4 | Mininova.org | 37,234 | 18,501 | 51.77% | 14.45% | 53K |
| 5 | Torrentus.si | 92,423 | 53,674 | 38.98% | 46.81% | NA |
| Rank | Question & Answer | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask.com | 34 | 25 | 89.86% | 5.12% | 20M |
| 2 | Quora.com | 151 | 342 | 32.87% | 57.22% | 8M |
| 3 | Answers.com | 328 | 289 | 14.67% | 52.01% | 25M |
| 4 | eHow.com | 678 | 1,511 | 11.31% | 85.79% | 16M |
| 5 | Wikihow.com | 189 | 432 | 9.87% | 90.71% | 8M |
| 6 | Answers.yahoo | NA | 45.12 | 9.87 | NA |
| Rank | Maps Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bing maps | 987 | 1023 | 56.23 | 7.23 | NA |
| 2 | Google Maps | 234 | 342 | 67.34 | 26.45 | NA |
| 3 | Mapquest.com | 964 | 958 | 47.51% | 46.72% | 16M |
| 4 | Wikimapia.org | 2,432 | 1,121 | 24.22% | 71.44% | 461K |
| 5 | Here.com | 2,618 | 1,751 | 25.21% | 18.63% | 1M |
| 6 | Openstreetmap.org | 5,897 | 3,375 | 43.43% | 33.67% | 342K |
| Rank | News Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News.Google.com | 105 | 115 | 53.37 | 0.95 | 189M |
| 2 | Bing.com/news | 212 | 342 | 59.67 | 9.56 | NA |
| 3 | Topix.com | 989 | 1,378 | 27.12% | 36.61% | 4.1M |
| 4 | news.Yahoo.com | 134 | 167 | 49.34 | 3.23 | 178M |
| 5 | Newslookup.com | 243,956 | 447,432 | 12.21 | 84.13 | 453K |
| Rank | Real estate/ property Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zillow.com | 164 | 223 | 44.42% | 42.12% | 25.5M |
| 2 | Realtor.com | 491 | 826 | 42.11% | 40.43% | 10.5M |
| 3 | Rightmove.co.uk | 723 | 1,134 | 47.18% | 35.54% | 221K |
| 4 | Redfin.com | 992 | 1,961 | 55.34% | 28.91% | 2.8M |
| 5 | Hotpads.com | 5,965 | 4,213 | 42.64% | 43.87% | 1.3M |
| Rank | Business Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justdial.com | 411 | 2,218 | 11.11% | 84.45% | 301K |
| 2 | Thomasnet.com | 12,342 | 28,543 | 18.89% | 71.12% | 558 |
| 3 | Globalspec.com | 18,125 | 27,301 | 16.43% | 77.99% | 441K |
| 4 | Business.com | 24,891 | 43,321 | 38.90% | 34.27% | 300K |
| 5 | Nexis.com | 68,125 | 53,673 | 52.97% | 6.45% | 60K |
| Rank | Multimedia Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Youtube.com | 3 | 3 | 46.31% | 21.33% | 161M |
| 2 | Bing videos | 3,231 | 3,389 | 45.12 | 6.19 | 19.6M |
| 3 | Yahoo Video | 1,231 | 2,312 | 48.32 | 4.67 | NA |
| 4 | Tineye.com | 4,111 | 6,254 | 71.34% | 19.54% | 123K |
| 5 | Vevo.com | 5,821 | 5,231 | 47.87% | 31.75% | 1.1M |
| 6 | Blinkx.com | 38,275 | 6,775 | 13.11% | 2.47% | 325K |
| 7 | Findsounds.com | 147,423 | 69,334 | 26.33% | 50.41% | NA |
| Rank | Source code Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Code.Google.com | 3,452 | 24.32 | 37.10 | 5.4M | |
| 2 | Code.Openhub.net |
