LIST OF THE TOP 15 SEARCH ENGINES OF THE WORLD

SEARCH ENGINE: it is a tool that we use daily in our life for searching the internet.

One needs to have browsing software in order to posses access to a search engine.

 


Here you'll get to know about the top best 15 search engines in the world:

 

1.     Google :

                                         

       

·      Founded by: Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 4, 1998.

·      CEO: Sundar Pichai

·     Google is the most popular search engine because of the quality of its search results by using sophisticated algorithms to present the most informative and accurate results to the users.

·     The founders came up with the concept that the websites referenced by other websites are more important than others and this deserve a higher ranking.


2.    Microsoft Bing :

   

·         Founded by: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 8.

·         Commonly known as Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

·        The service has its own origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search.

·         Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products.

·         It is developed using ASP.NET (Active Server Pages).

 

3.    Yahoo:

           

·      Founded by: Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

·      CEO: Jim Lazone

·      From October 2011 – October 2015, Yahoo search was powered exclusively by Bing. In October 2015, Yahoo agreed with Google to provide Search- related services and until October 2018, the results were powered by both Google and Bing.

·     As of October 2019, Yahoo Search is once again provided exclusively by Bing.

·      Yahoo is also the default search engines for Firefox browsers in the United States (Since 2014).

 

4.    Baidu:

                                                      

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·                   ·      Founded by: Robin Li Yanhong and Eric Xu.

·                  ·     Founders incorporated Baidu on January 18, 2000.

·                  ·     CEO: Robin Li

·                  ·      Although Baidu is accessible worldwide, it is only available in Chinese Language.

 

5.    Yandex.ru:

                                        

                        

·                   ·      Founded by: Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky, Iiya Segalovich.

·                   ·      CEO: Arkady Volozh

·                   ·      Russia's most popular search engine.


6.    DuckDuckgo:

·      Created by: Gabriel Weinberg

·      It was launched on February 29, 2008.

·     CEO: Gabriel Weinberg

·     DuckDuckgo results are a compilation of over “400” sources according to itself,   including Bing, WolframAlpha, Yandex and its own web crawler (DuckDuckbot) but   none from Google.

·      In 2010, DuckDuckgo began using privacy to differentiate itself from its     competitors.

 

7.    Ask.com:

 

·      Founded by: Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in 1996.

·      CEO: Douglas Leed

·      Originally known as Ask Jeeves is a question answering – focused on e-business.

·      The current Ask.com still supports this with support for Maths, Dictionary and Conversion question.

 

8.    Ecosia:

·      Founder and CEO: Christian Kroll in 2009.

·      Ecosia is a Berlin based social business.

·      The main reason Ecosia was created was to help in financing planting trees and restoration projects.

·      Ecosia is a part of Microsoft Search Network which includes Yahoo, AOL and DuckDuckgo.

·      It is thus known as the “tree planting search engine”.

 

 

9.    AOL.com:

                                                                                    

·      Founded by: Marc Seriff, Steve Case, Jim Kimsey, Willaim Von Miester.

·      CEO: Tim Armstrong

·      Owner: Yahoo, AOL holding LLC.

·      The AOL network includes many popular websites like engadget.com, techchrunch.com, and huffingtonpost.com.

 

10. Internet Archive:

                                                                    

·      Founder and CEO: Brewster Kahle in 1996.

·      It is an American digital library with the stated mission of “Universal access to all knowledge”.

·      archive.org is the internet archive search engine which can be used to find out how a website looked since 1996.

·      It is a very important tool if one wants to trace the history of a domain, website and examine how it has changed over the years.

 

11. Wolfram Alpha:

                                           

                                                                      

·      Developed by: Wolfram Research Inc.

·      WolframAlpha is different than all other search engines. They promote it as a Computational Knowledge that can give you facts and data for a number of topics.

·      It can compute expert-level answers using Wolframs breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and artificial intelligence tech. For mathematics, science technology, society & culture and lifestyle.

 

12. StartPage:

                                                                                                                  

·      Founded: In 2006 in the Netherlands is a Dutch search engine company.

·      Owner: Startpage BV

·      They advertise their company as the world’s most private search engine.

·      The website advertises that it allows the users to obtain Google Search results while protecting user’s privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers.

 

13. Wiki:

                                                                                                 

·      Inventor: Howard G. Cunningham

·      WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki developed in 1994.

·      Wiki.com is a dedicated search engine for wikis. It has the option to select between all wikis, Wikipedia only, encyclopaedias, or wikis submitted by other people.

·      The results of the wiki are powered by Google and they are limited to wikis. If one wanted to find something specific in Wikipedia or other popular wiki, it can be done faster through wiki.

  

14. YouTube:

                                                                             

·      Founded by: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.

·      CEO: Susan wojcicki

·      YouTube is the most popular video viewing platform but is also the second most popular search engine in the world.

·      YouTube has over 2.3 billion active users worldwide.

·      A lot these users turn to YouTube first when looking for answers or information on the web, and not to any search engine. It is estimated that YouTube processes over 3 billion searches a month.


15. Naver:

                                                     

·                  ·       Operated by: Naver Corporation

·                  ·      Debuted in: 1999

·                  ·      It is a South Korean Online platform and also the first web portal in South Korea               to develop and use its own search engine.

·                  ·      It is also the world’s first operator to introduce the comprehensive search feature,                     which compiles search results from various categories and presents them in a single               page.