Top search engines in the world

Top search engines in the world

In this tutorial, we will discuss “Top search engines in the world”

A “web search engine” is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The information may appear as mixed types of web pages, images, videos, audio, and other types of files.

The search engine is an important tool in the modern world to know the changes around the world every second as news, weather, invention, and many more. Many search engines are available in the world and each and every one of them follows a unique technique.

Here, I am trying to list out the top most used search engines according to their usage in my opinion.   This can be changed in the future.

Launched – September 15, 1997

Alexa Rank – 1

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 1,800,000,000

Monthly Active user – 12.6 billion

2. Bing

Bing is a world-famous web search engine developed and operated by Microsoft, It is the second largest search engine in America. Bing provides a variety of search services such as all search(another meaning: web search), video, image, map, and many more search products. Bing search engine earns using Bing advertisement service.

Launched – June 1, 2009

Alexa Rank – 32

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 500,000,000.

3. Yahoo

Yahoo provides many web-related services such as yahoo mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo news, Yahoo search, and many more. Yahoo search is a famous web search engine owned and developed by Yahoo. Its headquarters is located in California, USA. It is the third largest search engine in America after google and Bing. It is the most used search engine in many countries of the world.  Yahoo search is available in 40 languages and is mostly used in English.

Launched – January 23, 1994

Alexa Rank – 9

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 500,000,000

Monthly Active user – 1 billion

Ask.com is a web search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves which uses a question and answers-based techniques for its search.

Also, it has the general search functionality but the output quality is less compared to other search engines such as google, bing, Yahoo etc..

As a question and answer engine, the site has been popular with internet users despite competition from other search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 300,000,000

Launched – June 1996

Alexa Rank – 173

Monthly Active user –

Baidu is a multinational company which provides many services including search engine services. Baidu has captured over 70%  of the Chinese market and is also called “Chinese Google”. Also, Baidu launched an English site for developers. However, it is primarily a Chinese language search engine that is very famous in China and related countries.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 480,000,000

Launched – January 1, 2000

Alexa global Rank – 4

Rank in China – 1

AOL search engine helps you find exactly what you’re looking for. The user can get common data from web search as well as images, video, and many more. This is an old American search engine available in English. Despite competition from other search engines, it still has a lot of customers up till now.

 Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors.- 200,000,000

Launched – 1983

Alexa global Rank – 331

Rank in China – 80

7. Yandex

Yandex search is one of the largest web search engines that provides multinational internet service by the company named Yandex. Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide with more than 150 million searches per day and more than 50.5 million visitors daily amongst engines available in the English language. Yandex is based in Russia and is mostly used by countries that were soviet union based countries such as Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia including Russia.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 30,000,000 

Launched – 1997

Alexa global Rank – 715

Rank in Rusia – 4

8. WebCrawler

Web crawler offers a really very unique feature for their customers: it shows the top search results from Google and Yahoo on a single page, making it easier to look for the relevant information. Also, this search engine can be used to search for yellow and white pages.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 30,000,000 

Launched – 1997

Alexa global Rank – 2957

Rank in United States – 2483

9. Wow

WoW.com is a search engine that provides search results based on google.

wow returns fewer results than Google but returns more relevant results similar to Google most of the time.

Some say that this search engine is quite similar to AOL Search.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 100 000 000

Alexa global Rank – 102850

Rank in Germany – 1865

10. MyWebSearch

MyWebSearch is a searching tool that returns searching results from various search engines and is enhanced by Google. This search engine returns a lot of results like google. This search machine offers comprehensive and relevant search results from around the world wide web.

Info.com was a metasearch engine that provides results from world-leading search engines such as Yahoo!, Bing.com, Ask, LookSmart,  including Google. It is based in London, United Kingdom.

Info.com provides many types of search results for comparison: shopping and product reviews, a selection of news, health, pictures, video, classifieds, jobs, White Pages and Yellow Pages, tickets, flights, hotels, weather, maps, and directions.

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors – 7,000,000 

Alexa global Rank – 17442

Rank in India – 2294

12. Infospace

InfoSpace is a search engine that is owned and operated by InfoSpace .inc.This search engine
offers comprehensive and relevant search results from around the web. Since 1996, it has helped to make it fast and easy for users to find what they need online.  It also operates its own branded search sites, including the metasearch engine Dogpile, as well as Zoo.com and WebCrawler (as mentioned above.)