Worlds Top 10 Search Engines

Top 10 Search Engines in the World that are actively used currently

Many of you will go to Google search page everytime you have anything to learn about or to get more details about. Google is the most popular and famous search engine across the world. But, apart from Google, we have many other search engines that are available and many people make use of them.

Yes, friends, it may be a shocking surprise for many people to know but Google is not the only search engine available on the Internet today! In fact, there are a number of search engines that want 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 trying or considering the best. So, further due let's proceed and check out the list of top 10 most popular search engines in the world:

1. Google
2. Bing
3. Yahoo
4. Ask.com
5. AOL.com
6. Baidu
7. WolframAlpha
8. DuckDuckGo
9. Internet Archive
10. Yandex.ru

Now, since we know the name of the search engines. Let's proceed and get to know more about them in below descriptions in detail:

1 - Google

This search engine needs no further introductions. The search engine giant holds the first place among all the available search engines with the stunning difference of 66% from second in place Bing.

netmarketshare.com is the site where you can find out which search engine is used maximum for different percentages in compare with other search engines. My recommendation to check it out once. I have even provided you the link of it.

2 - Bing

Microsoft released Bing Desktop, a program developed for all users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012. The initial release followed shortly on April 24, 2012. Microsoft's attempt to Challenge Google in the area of search, but despite their efforts, they still did not manage to convince users that their search engine can produce better results than Google.

You can also think of it as lack of awareness on the availability of Bing to local peoples or also a habit where many people are used to opening chrome browser directly and start typing in their keywords to get the result.

3 - Yahoo

Since October 2011 Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Yahoo is still the most popular email provider and according to reports holds the fourth place in search engines with 4.44% according to netmarketshare.com

4 - Ask.com

Ask.com was formerly known as Ask Jeeves, it receives approximately 0.33% of the search share. ASK is based on a question & answer format where users are the ones who answer the questions asked by other users. These can also be in the form of polls.

It also has the general search functionality but the results returned lack quality compared to Google or even Bing and Yahoo.

5 - AOL.com

As per netmarketshare.com the old-time famous AOL is still in the top 10 search engines and currently at ninth position with 0.05% of search shares. The AOL network includes many popular websites like engadget.com, techchrunch.com, and the huffingtonpost.com.

6 - Baidu

Baidu was founded in the year 2000 and it is the most popular search engine in China. its market share is increasing slowly and according to netmarketshare it has 14.04% of search shares with the second position after Google. According to Wikipedia, Baidu is serving billion of search queries per month.

7 - Wolframalpha

Wolframalpha is different from all the other search engines available. The market it as a Computational Knowledge Engine which can give you facts and data for a number of topics.

8 - DuckDuckGo

It has a number of advantages over the other available and active search engines. It has a clean interface, it does not track users, it is not fully loaded with ads and has a number of very nice features. It displays only one page of results, you can search directly other websites.

According to netmarketshare it stands in the seventh position with 0.23% of search share.

9 - Internet Archive

Archive.org is the internet archive and is the first few hundred websites began in 1993. This is the first search engine created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.

10 - Yandex.ru

According to Alexa, Yandex.ru is among the 30 most popular websites on the Internet with a ranking position of 4 in Russian.

Yandex present themselves as a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. According to Wikipedia, Yandex operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 65% market share in that country.




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