Most of us think that there are just Google and Bing search engines but besides theme there are more search engines in the world. You will shock that Google is not the only search engine in the world. Today we will share with you the list of top 10 search engines in the world other than google.

These alternative best search engines are not so popular due to that they are not yet in the stage of google or they dominate in a specific region like: China, South Korea and others.

The main functions of top search engines:
  • Crawl: Search for content on each URL they come across on the Internet.
  • Index: The data fetched during the crawling process is stored and arranged in an index.
  • Rank: Show data based on how well its response to a searched query.
So, let’s start top 10 search engines in the world.

Top 10 best search engines in the world in 2022 other than google search engine
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1. Google

The most popular and top search engines in the world. Google introduced in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Google is popular due to it sophisticated algorithms which show the most relevant result and the quality that Google has. Today Google is dominating on internet in all countries and in all devices [Mobile, Computer, Tablet…].

The fact: The name of “Google” is derived from the word “googol” which is a mathematical term means “10 raised to the power of 100” or 1 with 100 zeros after it.

Today the google is beyond of just a search engine but google has a lot of things like: YouTube, Ask Search Engine, Google Drive …

2. Microsoft Bing

Bing is on the second position in the list of search engines. It is powered by Microsoft and is the default search engine in windows. Bing it trying to get the first place and convince their users that Bing is a reliable search engine but there is still too much distance to get to google. Bing is same to google has the Images, News and Videos tabs.

In addition, most users and experts focusing their attention on Google, there’s less competition on Bing.

3. Yahoo

Yahoo get the third position in the list of top search engines in the world. Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Organized Oracle”.

From 2011 to 2015 Yahoo search engine was powered by Bing but in 2015 they agreed with Google. In 2019 Yahoo search is again provided by Bing.

Yahoo is also the default search in United State for Firefox browser. Yahoo is similar to Bing.

4. Baidu

Baidu is the top search engine in China. It is China search engine available in Chinese language. As per Alexa ranking it is on fourth position.

Baidu was founded in 2000 by Chinese entrepreneur Eric Xu. Baidu provide the result for websites, Images, Audio and also other services such as News, Cloud Storage and many more.

5. Yandex

Yandex is most popular Russian search engine made by Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky, and Ilya Segalovich in 1997. It is the fifth in top 10 search engine list. Yandex stand for “Yet Another iNDEXer.”

Yandex provide variety of services such as Yandex disk which is same to google drive.

6. DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is on sixth position in best search engine list in the world. It is all about privacy it means that DuckDuckGo will not store your personal information and does not follow you. It is best for those people who care about their personal information and privacy.

Most people believe that DuckDuckGo do not have their own index such as [Google and Bing] but they are using other source [Bing, Stack Overflow…] for generating the response to the user query.

7. Ask

Ask.com has started in 1995 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in California. The main idea behind Ask was question and answer. They wanted to build a question-and-answer web format.
Now, Google actually powers Ask.com search results.

8. Ecosia

Ecosia is base in Berlin, Germany founded in 2009 by Christian Kroll. It is also known as “Tree Planting Search Engine” because they wanted to help in planting trees. Ecosia also deliver the technology services.

When you are searching in Ecosia it means you are farming the trees it will show you the number of plant on your search.

It is like DuckDuckGo focus on privacy.

9. AOL

AOL is also in the list of best search engine in the world by 0.05 market share. It is New York based search engine.

You can use AOL Search engine to find web, image, multimedia, retail, news, and local search results.

Search Engine #10. Internet Archive

Archive is the best option for user privacy because it will not keep track of your history, not sell you log and other from tracking your search queries.

this tool is used if you want to trace the history of a domain and examine how it has changed over the years.


Other Best Search Engines to Think about

  • StartPage

            StartPage founded in Netherland in 2006. It is the most private search engine and                best for privacy.

  • WiKi
  • YouTube
  • Wolframalpha
  • CC Search