What are the Top 10 Search Engines in the world? We are all aware that Google and Bing will make the top of this list, but on the other hand, an alarming number of persons may be surprised to learn that there are thousands of different search engines out there. While we cannot highlight all these amazing search engines, this article will focus on the Top 10 Search Engines that are widely used across the world.
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oogle And Bing are by far, the most popular search engines to have ever been created. However, there are still other search engines out there that many of us have never even heard of before, but they still serve millions of search queries each day. Despite the popularity of Google, Bing and all the other thousands of search engines out there, they will never be able to take the spot of the very first search engine to have ever existed, Archie. Archie was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. Thanks to Emtage’s creation, many of the search engines that we use would probably not be the way they are now. His techniques laid the foundation for the development search engines (and similar technology) that we all know (…and don’t know) and cannot do without.There are numerous search engines out there “fighting” to secure Google’s throne as the top search engine; however, their “gears” are not “strong enough” to pose a threat to the “king”. Here are the rivals listed below:
Top 10 Search Engines In The World
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Google
This Search engine giant needs no further introductions. It currently holds first place with a 66% margin when compared to Bing which is located in second place. In a report in January 2018 done by Netmarketshare, 74.52% of searches were powered by Google and only 7.98% by Bing. 93% of mobile & tablet searches were also powered by Google.
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Bing
The mastermind company behind Bing search engine is Microsoft which haven’t been able to convince the public that its search engine Bing, produce better search results than Google. There attempts to challenge Google in the search engine category haven’t been much of success as their Windows 8 OS release. Bing is a pretty good search engine never the less, that holds second place spot on this list.
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DuckDuckGo
If you ever need a search engine that has numerous advantages over the other search engines, DuckDuckGo is the right one for you. It doesn’t Track its users; it’s not loaded with ads; it has a very clean interface, and it has also acquired a lot of cool features during its course of development ( it only has one page results which automatically loads more results when scrolling downwards, and you can also search directly in to other websites, etc).
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Yahoo
Yahoo which is a portal website, used to be one of the most popular emailing service sites until the rise of Gmail, which is child company of Google, manages to take the number four spot on this list.
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Yandex.ru
On the list of the most popular search engines on the internet is Yandex.ru. They are among the top 30 websites according to Alexa, who is also rank as the fourth popular website in Russia.
Also according to Wikipedia Yandex.ru are responsible for 65% of the search engine market over in Russia. The company also present itself as an industry that produces intelligent products and services powered by Machine Learning Technology. -
Baidu
Baidu is a search engine that serves over a billion queries per month. The market has been on a steady increase according to Wikipedia since it was founded in 2000.
It is also the most popular search engine in China ranking at the number 1 position and holds the fourth position on Alexa. -
Internet Archive
Have you ever wondered what a website would look in the past? Well, internet Archive is here for that. It is a search engine which allows you to see the history of a website which includes the designs, the history for the domain and when it was purchased. It’s a very useful tool if you want to trace a website’s history.
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Ask.com
Ask.com, formerly know as Ask Jeeves, is based on a Question/Answer format where most questions are answered by other users or are in the form of polls. Ask.com also receives approximately 0.05% of the search market shares.
Ask.com has a general search engine functionality but the search results that are returned lacks quality when compared to Google, Bing, Yandex or even Yahoo.
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AOL
AOL is an old-time famous website, which still manages to make the Top 10 Search Engines In The World. It managed to acquire 0.04% of the search engine market shares according to Netmarketshare. AOL network also includes popular sites like engadget.com, Techchrunch.com, and the Huffingtonpost.com.
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Wolframalpha
The market is as a computational knowledge engine which can give you facts and data from a number of different topics, but Wolframalpha is different in the sense that you can perform all sorts of calculations. For example, if you enter “mortgage 2000” as an input and it will calculate your loan amount, even the amount of interest you will pay etc, based on a number of assumptions.
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).
Those are the Top 10 Search Engines In The World 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 leadership positions for years to come.
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