There are a number of search engines other than Google? Yes, it is right, but many of us only familiar with Google.
There is no doubt that Google is the King and rules the online search world, but there are other options available in the market that are used by people from different countries.
Here, I have put a list of top 10 search engines. Go through the list and discover some new search engines!
1. Google
Google Search Engine is the best search engine in the world and almost 90+ percent of the search engine market has been acquired by Google.
Launched: 1997
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan
2. Bing
Bing is the default search engine in Microsoft's web browser. It provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image, and map search products.
Launched: 3 Jun 2009
Founder: Microsoft Corporation
3. Baidu
Baidu is the dominant Chinese internet search engine company, and it is the quivalent to Google in the United States. Baidu is similar to Google and offers similar products and services.
Launched: January 2000
Founder: Eric Xu
4. Yahoo
Yahoo provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Mail, News, Finance, Groups, and Yahoo! Answers, etc.
Launched: January 1994
Founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo
5. Yandex
Yandex is the most used search engine in Russia. Yandex also has a great presence in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.
Launched: 1997
Founders: Arkady Volozh, llya Segalovich, Elena Kolmanovskaya, Arkady Borkovsky
6. Ask.Com
Ask.Com, previously known as Ask Jeeves. Their key concept was to have search results based on a simple question + answer web format.
Launched: June 1996
Founders: Garrett Gruener and David Warthen
7. DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searcher's privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.
Launched: 2008
Founder: Gabrie Weinberg
8. Lycos
Lycos has a good reputation in the search engine industry. Its key areas served are email, web, hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.
Launched: May 1994
Founder: Bob Davis
9. WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is different than al the other search engines. They market it as a computational knowledge engine that can give you facts and data for a number of topics.
Launched: 15 May 2009
Founders: Wolfram Research, Stephen Wolfram
10. CC Search
CC Search should be your first stop on the hunt for nearly any type of copyright-free content. The organization has released several copyright-licenses, known as creative commons licenses, free of charge the public.
Launched: 15 January 2001
Founder: Lawrence Lessig.
Google may be the most popular choice in search engines, but it may not always be the best choice, depending on your needs and priorities.
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