This post offers a list of popular web search engines.
According to Statcounter, as of 2020 Google dominate search engine market with a 82% in desktop computers and 95% on mobile phones. Some initiatives like the lobby FairSearch try to counteract the Google dominance of the market.
In case you are looking for a search engine alternative, this list can give you some ideas.
List of Web Search Engines
The web search engines featured in this post are listed below:
- Ask.com
- Bing
- DuckDuckGo
- Ecosia
- FairSearch
- Info.com
- Mojeek
- Norton Safe Search
- Panda Search
- Search Mail.ru
- StartPage
- Yahoo
- Yandex
Ask.com
Based in California, USA.
Question-oriented search engine.
Bing
By Microsoft, based in Washington, USA.
It is the most popular search provider after Google.
DuckDuckGo
Based in Pennsylvania.
It emphasizes privacy protection. It claims it does not share user information with partner companies.
Probably the most popular alternative search engine, in opposition to traditional search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Ecosia
Based in Berlin, Germany.
It claims to donate 80% of its profits to nonprofit organizations that focus on reforestation.
It provides results from Bing since 2017.
Based in California, USA
For many people (probably most), it is THE search engine.
Info.com
It is a metasearch engines that combine results from different search engines.
Mojeek
UK
It creates its own index of web pages.
Norton Safe Search
Based in USA
Search engine by the IT security company Symantec.
Panda Search
Money generated from this search engines funds WWF (World WilfLife Fund).
Search results are based on Bing.
go.Mail.ru
Russian search engine from the popular e-mail provider mail.ru
StartPage
Based in Netherlands.
It emphasizes privacy protection. The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Google Search results while protecting users’ privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers.
It would be like DuckDuckGo (though less popular), but it uses the Google engine instead of Yahoo.
Yahoo
Based in California, USA.
Yahoo is the oldest search engine of this list. Since its foundation in 1994, it was once the most popular search engine of the early internet until Google unseated it.
Yandex
Based in Moscow, Russia