Top 10 Best 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 many 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 today on the Internet! In fact, there are a number of search engines that try 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:

Google Search Engine is the best search engine in the world. It is also the most popular search engine in the world. and it is also one of most popular product from Google. According to latest report from Netmarketshare, more than 75 percent of Search Engine market has been acquired by Google. The tech giant is always trying to improve the search engine algorithm to provide best results & user experience to the end-user.

Both desktop & mobile search engine market is dominated by Google

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 5.2 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. 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.

6. AOL

Aol.com is also among the top search engines in the world. It has market share of 0.05 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.

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. 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. ChaCha.com

According to alexa chacha.com is the 8th most popular search engine with a ranking position of 297 in the US. It is similar to ask.com where users can ask or answer a particular question. They also have a number of quizzes that can help you decide on a number of topics.

Conclusion

So these are best and most popular web search engines in the world. Among them Google, Bing and Yahoo are dominating the search engine market and been used by most people in the world. These three are the most popular and best search engines to use.

For creating this list, we have taken data from Wikipedia, Netmarketshare and Alexa.com. This list is no means that all the spots are fixed for future. It will surely be updated in future on the basis of market share, popularity, quality and uniqueness of features.