Google Alternatives: 8 Best Web Search Engines

Google Alternatives: 8 Best Web Search Engines

There is no doubt that the world’s most used search engine is Google, and is expected to be so for much longer because it is the best among all other. Google offers users lot of free services like Gmail, Calendar, Maps etc.

Nowadays, most of our online activity relies on Google services, even our most important data are stored on Google servers. However, there are many other search engines like Google which are doing the same thing in a much better way. Here we are going to describe five best Google alternative search engines.

As we already mentioned that Google is still the best search engine. But, these alternative search engines look and store your data in different ways.

• DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is one of the fastest growing search engines and it turns out to be the best alternative of Google search. The reason why we have mentioned DuckDuckGo on the top is that it provides lots of features.

DuckDuckGo never collects or share any of the personal data of users. It aggregates data from Yandex, Bing and some other search engines to display results privately to its users.

• Bing

Google might be the king of online searches, but Bing still has a good hold on the market. Bing is the second largest search engine which is owned by Microsoft.

The Bing homepage modifies daily with some high-quality pictures. Bing also offers few other features like operating calculations, Flight tracking, Calculators, Conversations, Spellcheck etc.

• Yahoo

Yahoo is one of the toughest competitors of Google and it had partnered with Microsoft to display Bing search results in Yahoo web search. Yahoo is not just a search engine but this is also a news aggregator. Users can also find videos, images using Yahoo web search.

• Yandex

Yandex was founded way back in the year 2000 and it was founded by a Russian-based company. Yandex is the 4th largest search engine in the world. Yandex also offers few useful services to its users like Videos, Images, Yandex Browser, Translate, Maps, Cloud storage, and even the mailing services.

• Ecosia

Ecosia deserves to be on the list because the company donates approximately 80% of their monthly profits to plant trees in the location like Madagascar and Peru. More than 10 million trees have been planted due to Ecosia as of this writing.

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You can use this search engine to search for news, Videos, Maps and much more. The design of the landing page is similar to Google which makes it more user-friendly.

• Dogpile

Years ago, Dogpile preceded Google as the fast and efficient choice for web searching. Things changed in the late 1990's, Dogpile faded into obscurity, and Google became king.

Today, however, Dogpile is coming back, with a growing index and a clean and quick presentation that is testimony to its halcyon days. If you want to try a search tool with pleasant presentation and helpful crosslink results, definitely try Dogpile!

• Yippy 

Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search.

That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool. 

• Webopedia

Webopedia is one of the most useful websites on the web. Webopedia is an encyclopedic resource dedicated to searching techno terminology and computer definitions.

Teach yourself what 'domain name system' is, or teach yourself what 'DDRAM' means on your computer. Webopedia is absolutely a perfect resource for non-technical people to make more sense of the computers around them. 

So, these are the five best alternatives to Google Search Engine. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comment section below. Share it with your friends too.