Which search engine is the most popular. The best search engines. Additional features of Nygma
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Have you thought about how what we use every day came to be? What search engines are there besides Google and Yandex? And why do all SEO studios and people choose the latter? Yes, but didn't find the answers? They are in this article.
A long time ago, when everything was just beginning on the Internet...
In order to restore some order, the Yahoo, DMOZ, etc. directories were developed. By the way, some of them have not sunk into oblivion to this day. A catalog is something like a library. In it you can not only save, but also divide links to sites into groups.
The World Wide Web was growing at an incredible speed and catalogs no longer met the needs of visitors. Then programmers began working on searching inside directories, and then on the first search engine.
Wandex - the pioneering search engine
The search engine that became the pioneer is Wandex (no, this is not the “father” of Yandex, there are no “family” connections between them). It, like all other search engines, was so far from ideal that it returned literally everything, and not what most suited the request. There were no ranking algorithms.
The first system that was created to search for information on the Internet was Wandex; it no longer exists. It was created by World Wide Web Wanderer, a Perl bot developed by Matthew Gray of MIT in 1993. He also contributed to the creation of Apache, the development of the MIT website, and other projects. Today Matthew Gray is an employee of Google.
In 1993, there were only 623 sites on the entire Internet, so Vandex had less work than modern search engines. Moreover, thanks to such modest measures, powerful servers with multi-stage clustering, complex search algorithms and methods for optimizing them were not needed to create indexes and display results.
Wandex and other early services had imperfect search systems. When you asked for a word, they did not display the most relevant links, but all pages and their data, without analysis or ranking. Therefore, for some time, the real competitors of search engines were page directories - web sites with manually selected categories of links to web sources.
Vandex restoration
On December 31, 2011, it became known about the revival of this system. On January 1, 2012, the World Wide Web Wanderer search bot was registered by the owners of many sites, which became the reason for discussions. Today on the main page there is a search bar with the words Wandex.
The letter X is depicted in the form of crossed lines, one of which has the shape of a magnifying glass - a frequently used symbol in the search engine.
The most popular Internet search engines in the world and Russia
Even a 1st grade student can name the most popular search engines. This is Google and Yandex. You can argue day and night about which one is better. But why? They are different, and which one to go to depends on your goals. For you, I have prepared a large list of 16 search engines, these are almost all the search engines that currently exist or existed previously.
Let's start with search engines in Russian and the most popular in Russia, and then move on to the world ones.
Yandex
If you believe what they write on LiveInternet, then Yandex is preferred by the majority of Russians. However, the difference between it and Google is only one percent.
Among those involved in the creation and SEO promotion of websites, there is an opinion that Yandex is tailored to commercial requests, that it has several times more of them than its competitor. In my opinion, this is just another speculation. As practice shows, regionality determines the size and structure of the target audience.
The history of Yandex began in the late 1980s - with the creation of search technologies in the Arcadia company, which later became part of the CompTek group. The creators came up with several search programs - the International Classifier of Inventions and a Bible search that takes into account the morphology of the Russian language. The search method is called Yandex.
The first active version of the search application called Yandex appeared in 1993; in 1995, the computers of the company that created the search engine were connected to the Internet, and in 1996, work began to refine the search methods.
The official birthday of the search engine Yandex.ru is September 23, 1997. On this day, the system was presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. Yandex in 1997 took into account the morphology of the Russian language, the distance between words, and was able to distribute documents based on their relevance to a given query.
In 1998, contextual advertising appeared on the portal for the first time - advertising that corresponds to the request of a potential user. With this method of display, advertising is seen only by the target audience. Contextual advertising has become one of the important answers to user questions, and later the main business model of Yandex.
Yandex was founded in 2000. Its founders were CompTek shareholders. The ru-Net Holdings organization invested more than $5 million in Yandex, its profit was 35%. Among the shareholders were Yandex managers and its main search engine developers.
Arkady Volozh became the general director of the company, and Ilya Segalovich became the director - he was also responsible for the implementation and development of technologies. The Yandex team consisted of 25 people, and all information was located on one server.
In 2013, the Russian search engine Yandex ranked fourth in the world in terms of the number of requests processed, overtaking Microsoft and giving way to Google, Yahoo and Baidu in the leading positions. Yandex search revenue in the domestic market is 61.6%. The portal's international audience is 93.1 million people. The company's net income for 2013 increased by 80%.
Google rules the roost in all countries of the world except Russia. He came to us relatively recently, in 2004, when Yandex was already confidently standing on its feet.
Google has spread so much that the word “Google” has become a common noun; it means searching for something on the Internet. It's funny, but when I ask my mom to “Google” something, she still opens Yandex. Maybe he doesn’t realize what other search engines there are.
Google first appeared as a development of the scientific project of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1996, Stanford students worked on the Digital Library Project (SDLP). It was aimed at developing new technologies for a common, integrated and universal digital library. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation.
To find a topic for his dissertation, Page considered, among other information, studying the mathematical properties of the Internet, representing the structure of links in the form of a large graph. His thesis advisor, Terry Winograd, advised him to take this idea (Page later noted that it was the best advice he had ever received), and he became completely immersed in the problem of figuring out which sites were linking to this page by looking at the number and nature of backlinks.
He was soon joined by Stanford graduate student Sergei Brin, who was Page's best friend. Together they created the PageRank algorithm. After defining BackRub's results, which consisted of a list of URLs sorted by the number of backlinks to that URL, they realized that a search engine built on PageRank would bring them high results.
This technology for ranking a page and its ranking has already been studied by Robin Lee, who created the small search engine RankDex in 1996. This technology was patented and used later after the founding of Baidu in China.
The first investment in Google was recorded in August 1998 in the amount of 100 thousand dollars from Andy Bechtolsteim, one of the developers of Sun Microsystems. The company was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The name Google comes from the word “googol,” meaning the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. At the end of 1998, Google had indexed more than 60 million pages.
The home page was still marked BETA, but the search engine was already receiving positive feedback: Google search rates were higher than other systems, high technological innovation than overloaded web portals.
The Google search engine attracts a huge number of Internet users with its minimalism and accessible interface. In 2000, Google began selling advertising related to key search queries. The advertisement consisted of text, so it did not load the page design and did not reduce its loading speed.
Key requests were implemented based on a combination of the cost of the offer and the number of transitions; the cost started from $0.05 per transition. This model for implementing keyword advertising was first proposed by goto.com. Unlike its competitors, Google managed to enter a new Internet market.
Those in the shadows
If you, like my mother, don’t know what other search engines there are, then take a look. A lot of them!
Mail.ru's share is small, but it is gradually growing. First of all, due to mail, Odnoklassniki and other services from this search engine.
The history of Mail.ru began in 1998, when a group of programmers from St. Petersburg developed the mail.ru email service and sent it to the Internet for testing. In May 2005, the mail.ru Group company was created. It promotes a common integrated platform for communication and entertainment Internet services.
The company owns the leading email service, one of the most visited sites on the RuNet, popular social networks - Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, major games Warface, Armored Warfare, Skyforge and Perfect World, the maps.me service - offline maps and navigation for mobile gadgets based on OpenStreetMap , food delivery service Delivery Club, trading place for Chinese products Pandao.
Rambler
Rambler is one of the oldest search engines. She could have become the most popular on the RuNet, but it didn’t work out. Now this search engine is not a search engine at all, but several services that are made on the Yandex engine.
Rambler's traffic can be the envy of newcomers - it exceeds one million people a day.
Rambler has a lightweight version called Rambler Lite. Everything is the same, but there are no annoying advertisements, news or weather.
In 1996, the Rambler search server was first created. Therefore, this date is the year the search engine was opened. On October 8, after successful testing, Rambler began to function as a search engine.
The search engine didn’t come up with this name by chance. When translated from English, it means a tramp, which accurately reveals the search engine’s method of operation. He surfs the Internet endlessly and independently collects data on all the documents he finds.
In 1997, the Rambler’s Top100 rating classifier first appeared, which allows assessing the popularity of a web resource based on objective information. The appearance of such a counter contributed to the revival among webmasters, who began to pay more attention to the quality of the sites being developed.
Despite the fact that Rambler is considered the oldest search engine on the Internet, it is constantly being modernized. New versions of the search engine can significantly increase search speed. The search index is updated every day, which allows you to find relevant news.
Rambler is constantly being modernized and remains one of the most popular search engines. As long as Internet users need to search for the necessary information, this system will roam the Internet and collect important information.
In 2011, Rambler completely abandoned the promotion and support of its own search. He entered into an agreement with Yandex. From this moment on, it works together with Yandex and is no longer an independent search engine.
It's not easy to surprise nowadays, but this search engine managed to do it. Nigma can solve problems in mathematics and chemistry, and also offers search for music, games, books and torrents.
Nigma is an intelligent search engine developed by Russian developers Vladimir Chernyshev and Viktor Lavronenko. It all started with their meeting in 2004, and then fruitful cooperation began to create a high-quality new project for the Runet.
Despite the fact that the service uses sources from the most popular search engines when issuing results, it has a lot of interesting ideas.
How did the search from Nygma come about?
This search system searches not only by its own index, but also by the indexes of its colleagues - Yandex, Yahoo, Rambler, Bing. As for Google, in 2007 Stanford University professor Hector Garcia-Molina, who at one time was the scientific supervisor of the founders of this most popular search engine today, took part in the program for creating algorithms for Nigma.
As of February 2009, Nigma had more than 7 billion documents in its indexes with search engines. This is the first RuNet clustering system, but let's figure it out together.
When you enter a query in a search engine, Nigma generates a list of documents, dividing it into clusters. Each of their many can be rejected, then the search will be performed with high relevance. For example, requests received from online stores create a separate cluster - if you are not interested in such documents, then simply exclude them from the results.
Nigma service features: mathematics, chemistry, music
Nigma.ru has its own unique characteristics, for example, it uses smart search tips. To get your bearings, the search engine displays them even as you enter the query itself. They can be divided into three groups: short, precise queries and encyclopedic reference.
Nigma helps you quickly find torrent trackers without registration or advertising banners. Just enter the name of the movie and the word torrent for it. You can instead specify to download the movie with its title and also get links to torrent sources. This is a very interesting specialization, with the help of which you can not get lost in the world of cinema.
Nygma also has more characteristic features. But let’s take a closer look at its specialization in solving various problems in mathematics, chemistry, and physics - it is a universal assistant for schoolchildren.
Nygma mathematics
This is a service with which you can solve various mathematical problems online and reproduce calculations - simplifying expressions and even solving systems of equations. To do this, you need to specify them as a simple query in the search bar.
Nygma's system also recognizes a huge number of different mathematical and physical constants, units of measurement - the result of actions with different quantities is obtained. Another possibility is solving equations with mathematical expressions; constants can be specified in both abbreviated and full form.
Nigma-chemistry
Not everyone can solve chemistry problems, but they also need to be checked. It is better to use Nygma than to copy answers from solution books. In any case, Nigma-chemistry is a great service for self-education in this direction. In the appropriate category you can find an introductory video to understand how to work with the system.
You can search for individual chemicals, either by abbreviated designations or simply by name in letters. Nygma controls the process - for example, if you mistakenly specify a formula for a reaction that does not exist at all, the system will definitely notify you about it.
Nygma music
The search engine also has a multimedia section dedicated to searching for music and listening to it online. You can search by song title, artist or album. Before downloading music, the system offers to listen to it.
Additional features of Nygma
This was not the entire list of features of the Nigma search engine; some categories are of particular interest:
- Official web resources. nigma.rf increases the priority of primary data sources in the results. That is, if you want to know something about a person who has his own website, or about a company, then such information will be displayed in the first row.
- English hint. This service checks the compatibility and frequency of words used in English expressions. You enter any expression into the search bar; if it is incorrect, the system will offer the correct options.
- Search by libraries. For this purpose, the service has a special Books category. You can find any information on authors and texts of works.
- Decoding abbreviations. The smart system recognizes not only Russian, but also foreign abbreviations. Just indicate in the search engine what interests you, in addition to the results on the left, you will see options.
- Search by tables. You can automatically obtain information about objects in the form of tables. The search engine was the first among competitors to offer such a function.
- Spam control. This service offers users the opportunity to help develop the search engine. Simply by using the search bar and browsing sites, you can notify the moderator that one of them is unreliable.
Nygma is an interesting search engine with its own personality, despite the use of indexes from other search engines. There are a lot of different useful functions here, the main thing is that everything is sorted and specific.
The last search engine on the list. And for good reason. Do not use it under any circumstances. If you don't believe me, read the reviews. Many had to pull this search engine out of their computer like a tick. Alas, this is true. All people are interested in regarding Webalta is removal methods.
Webalta is a Russian search engine. It is promoted using technologies that allow, without the knowledge or consent of users, to set the website start.webalta.ru as the start page in the browser on their computers, as well as as the default search engine.
Also, an additional parameter for launching the Webalta website is added to the browser launch commands in the properties of the corresponding shortcuts. The company is suspected of links to cybercrime.
At first, Vebalta was an ambitious project that developed rapidly thanks to a company of enthusiasts without investing money in it or attracting outside investment. The development plans were impressive and consisted of real competition with Google and Yandex, which by that time had firmly established themselves.
Naturally, this was a utopia, which ended with the sale of the project to those who today have made it an outright GS, which attracts traffic in non-kosher ways in order to receive income from teasers from Market Guide and other advertising. In itself, this method of income has a right to exist, but it does not suit a site that positions itself as a search engine.
Google, for example, still adheres to the principle that the main page of both Google.com and google.ru should have nothing more than a line for entering a query. Its main and more successful competitor in the Runet search market, on the contrary, uses the main page to the maximum - both for advertising and for the needs of users.
You can customize the Yandex home page, add widgets and change themes. But none of the self-respecting search engines stooped to abstracts, except for Webalt. Therefore, at the launch stage of the project, Vebalta even had its own contextual advertising system under the self-explanatory name Optimist.
But for a search engine launched in mid-2000 to be able to compete with those who entered this market 10 years earlier and firmly established themselves in it, a miracle had to happen. Even those who started in the mid-nineties along with the leaders failed to maintain their leading positions - there is no Aport search engine at all, and Rambler search has completely become dependent on Yandex.
Even such a monster as Yahoo is no longer considered a search engine, but uses the capabilities of Bing for these purposes.
The developer of Webalta once wrote that they had the opportunity to receive a solid investment package, but it was given to another promising startup from the same niche - the smart search engine Nigma, which is still in demand, even with such little traffic as Webalta, but it did not stoop to viral introduction into users’ browsers and does not make money from teasers.
Before Webalta was sold, rumors arose that one of the most impressive data centers at that time was created for it, which was later given over to the creation of bulletproof hosting.
From 2008 to 2010, the site of this search engine partially did not perform searches at all, and since 2010, a viral epic appeared, which, although it helped increase traffic, completely buried Webalt’s reputation.
Bing
Bing has changed more than one, not two, or even three names. But this is not important, since it is close in quality to Google.
On June 1, Microsoft created its first search engine and called it Bing. Spiteful critics sarcastically began to rub their hands, enjoying yet another failure, but this system went uphill. For some time, the search engine competed with Yahoo for a long time. But Yandex and Google quickly eclipsed it due to the fact that the Kumo engine does not index sites in Russian well.
Today, Bing is the default search in Internet browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, as well as on mobile gadgets with the Windows operating system. It is the second most popular search engine in the world. Despite the weak user activity in Russia and the CIS countries, part of the worldwide traffic is more than 20% (the main users are residents of America, China and Europe).
If we talk about demand among the Russian-speaking audience, then the Bing search engine is not very successful. According to statistics for September 2018, part of the traffic on RuNet is 0.28%, which is very small. Users pay more attention to Yandex and Google.
This is due to the fact that Bing does not officially work in Russia. For Runet users, only the Russian-language version of the site is provided, which produces results relevant to English-language resources. That is why Russian smartphones with Windows OS use Yandex.
Bing Features
The Bing search engine has a number of unique features that make it stand out from other search engines. Due to constant competition with Google, the system is constantly updated and provides new features, among which the following can be highlighted:
- Each user can choose the format for displaying snippets in search results. For example, full or abbreviated description and so on.
- The ability to select the number of web resources displayed on one search page, as well as the option to launch new sites.
- Interaction with Microsoft Office services. For example, built-in search for word meanings in Microsoft Word.
- A search log showing all queries entered from this browser.
- Ability to save places on the map, pictures, videos and news in My Collections.
In addition to the above, the Bing search engine has basic capabilities and tools inherent in other search engines.
Contextual advertising service – Bing Ads
Of course, among webmasters from Russia this service is not as popular as Yandex.Direct. The use of Bing Ads is reasonable only in situations where project promotion is required outside the RuNet.
Due to the least popular search engine Bing, there is little competition here, while the quality of traffic is not inferior even to Google, and the solvency of the audience is at the same level. Promoting Internet projects in Bing does not require specific knowledge and skills.
Some ranking factors are different from those that apply to Google, and are sometimes considered the exact opposite. Sometimes what is beneficial for website promotion in one search engine can be harmful in another.
For example, if in Bing the exact occurrence of keys in headings, subheadings and the text itself is welcomed, then in Google this can contribute to falling under filters.
Different types of delivery
Like other search engines, Bing can find not only web resources with relevant content, but also pictures, news, and videos. Everything here is familiar to Google and Yandex users. You can select the required section above the search results.
Maps from Bing
This tool allows you to find specific places on the map, companies, restaurants, medical centers and so on. To use it, just click on the link https://www.bing.com/maps/ and enter the desired address or company name in the search bar.
You can view maps in two modes: roads and hybrid view. You can also enable full screen mode. The Routes button allows you to continue following from point A to point B; it will show the approximate time and length in kilometers. The found path can be printed. If you are logged in to Bing search, you can save places to My Collections.
I have been promoting informational and commercial websites since 2013.
Translator on the Microsoft Translator platform
This is another useful tool with which you can get a reliable translation with the ability to vote for one or another result. The service has more than 60 languages at its disposal. The translator from the Bing search engine also includes an application for mobile devices, tools for business and education.
The Bing search engine from Microsoft deserves the attention of users. It has a number of amazing features and benefits, as well as huge potential. Of course, it is difficult to get ahead of such a giant as Google, but recently the part of the traffic that comes from Bing has increased noticeably, which means that developers are moving in the right direction.
Yahoo
Officially, Yahoo is not a search engine. The fact is that according to the deal concluded between Yahoo and Bing, all Yahoo sites now use the Bing engine.
According to popular web ratings, Yahoo is the American oldie of the Internet with a monthly audience of more than 700 million users. In America, Americans love the Yahoo search engine more than Google. The service was first created by David Fileo, an electrical engineering student.
In 1994, the developers made a directory with links to other web resources. Since it was extremely difficult to find sites on the World Wide Web at that time, the catalog became popular in a short time, and by the fall of 1994 it was used by more than 100 thousand users, and it had more than one million requests.
Yahoo history
In 1995, Yahoo Corporation was created, and a year later branches were opened in countries such as Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, India, Japan and Canada. Then there was the Internet boom, and at that time the search engine made great money from advertising.
By that time, major search engines Lycos, MSN, Excite and Yahoo had appeared. They developed and grew rapidly. And in order to attract more and retain users on web resources, search engines created more and more services:
- Yahoo! Mail". Among the advantages of mail from Yahoo, it is necessary to highlight comfortable functionality, spam filtering, the use of AJAX technology for the Russian-language interface, a large mailbox volume (up to 1GB), the ability to use RSS and synchronization with various web applications. The disadvantages of this service are a large number of advertisements, the inability to use tags to sort messages, as well as some shortcomings in the Calendar and Notepad categories.
- Yahoo! Games". This section is based on com developments acquired at the very beginning of the company's activities. Today you can find different games on this service. For many games, not only a paid version is available, but also a free one.
- Yahoo! Groups". This is the most popular social network that unites people by interests. Those who want to find a brother with similar interests can join existing groups or create a new one. The service is very convenient and informative. The only thing that can stop a Russian user from searching for colleagues in the same interests is the lack of a Russian-language version of the web resource.
In general, it should be noted that the functions of the Russian-language Yahoo are too limited. Among all the variety of functions that are available on the international portal, Yahho! In Russian it only has mail, messenger, news and a website directory.
At the same time, English-speaking users can get answers to any questions, find a job, check the weather for the coming days, get acquainted with television programs, financial news, and explore new opportunities in the Yahoo! Small Business (hosting, domain names, website builder, etc.).
So although Yahoo! is one of the oldest international search engines, it is likely that precisely because of the lack of a Russian-language version of the portal, in April 2009 in RuNet this search engine was only in 13th place.
Features of promotion in Yahoo
Search engine promotion of a website in Yahoo is different from promotion in Google or Bing. In order for a site to rank better in Yahoo, you need to add it to the search engine directory. Addition is paid and is paid every year. There are also nuances when working on links and diluting texts with links for the Yahoo search engine.
But in practice it has been shown that if a site is in the top in Google, then it will rank in the top ten in Yahoo. Those who actively use this search engine receive significant advantages over other optimizers. Yahoo has the following features:
- Constant trust in sites. If once a site reaches a leading position in terms of issuing queries, then it will remain at the top constantly. If you once managed to promote your site, then you are guaranteed a long stay in the TOP. Sometimes even the wrong actions of web resource owners do not reduce the site's rating. For old people, Yahoo is a favorable factor, but what should newbies do? You need to constantly fill sites with new content, thereby gaining the trust of the search engine. If you succeed, then you can promote an old guy with uninteresting or irrelevant content.
- Keywords. Everyone knows that search engine optimization requires website owners to include key queries and words in the content. Yahoo is very picky about key phrases, and, accordingly, you can increase the chance of getting into the TOP by competently creating keywords and their number.
- Links. Yahoo does not require you to provide topic-specific links. The main thing for Yahoo is not the quality of links, but their quantity. Therefore, you can advertise your website anywhere by providing links to it.
- Long indexing. A special feature of Yahoo is the long indexing of sites. This process takes a lot of time, since the system completely checks your site. Therefore, you need to update materials on old pages as often as possible. This will give the search engine clear reasons to rank your site in the TOP.
Since website promotion only in Yahoo is unacceptable for the Russian-speaking space, you need to choose a middle ground. There is no need to provide links only of a non-topical nature with the expectation of Yahoo, forgetting about Yandex or Google.
Due to such actions, such search engines may block your site from being viewed for their queries. Therefore, you need to pay special attention to the quality of the links created, as well as thematic focus. This will allow your site to get high rankings in Yahoo, but will also prevent you from losing these positions in other search engines.
Yahoo search engine is a large search engine that occupies a decent share of the search market, and provides good traffic to promoted web resources, and is also considered the leader in the search market in Japan.
When promoting a site in the English-speaking segment and other regions, you need to remember that Yahoo provides potential visitors.
DuckDuckGo servers are located in the United States. The peculiarity of this search engine is that it is open source. The privacy and confidentiality of all incoming information is guaranteed: nothing about the user is reflected in the database, there is no search history, and cookies are used to a minimum.
Thus, the advantage of DuckDuckGo is that it generates objective rather than personalized results and does not display topical advertisements. In addition, DuckDuckGo will be relevant if you need to find something on foreign Internet resources. The fact is that Google and Yandex are focused on Runet, even if the keyword is not in Russian.
Features of the DuckDuckGo search engine
This system has very interesting features, and does not simply copy the capabilities of the leaders. Let's look at these features. The official website duckduckgo.com notes the following advantages:
- Improved search engine (including images, videos and places) while maintaining privacy.
- Availability of direct answers to your queries in the search results.
- Customizing the appearance.
- Possibility of direct search in other services (Facebook, Amazon, Wikipedia).
- Easy to use and install DuckDuckGo.
- The history of DuckDuckGo
The main feature of the search engine is maintaining the privacy of user data. That is, the service does not monitor or remember your activity, history and other data. This principle made it possible to attract a certain audience, and after Snowden’s speech and the adoption of a law in America on the collection of information about users, it greatly increased it.
According to data from Wikipedia, after such statements, the number of system users doubled and amounted to 3 million requests per day. The DuckDuckGo website in the About the project category presents the most interesting facts about the history of the service since its opening in 2008.
For example, in 2011 the company placed an advertising board “Google tracks you. We don't" in the backyard. At this time, the first official employee appeared, and the move from the basement to a spacious office was carried out.
In February 2012, 1 million requests per day were received, after which the figure grew rapidly - 2,3,4,5 million and, finally, 10 million requests per day in the summer of 2015. The DuckDuckGo search engine is now available in Safari and Firefox.
Lack of filters and search results
The creators of the project believe that one of the main disadvantages of modern search engines is providing users with results that, in the opinion of these systems, suit users best.
To do this, you need to take into account the user’s various preferences, his browsing history and a whole list of other factors. Why should any other algorithm decide what exactly you want to find? The DuckDuckGo search engine allows you to get rid of this limitation and simply get an answer to any of your queries.
We don’t know what the service was like at the very beginning of its existence, but today users have the opportunity to select a region to track their location. Georeferencing is voluntary.
As for the results in the search results, the picture is a little specific:
- TOP on request restaurant with the included region Ukraine has almost half of the links to establishments in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Moreover, even with the Ukrainian language turned on for the search, which only affects the quote from Wikipedia.
- The mark in the lower right corner “in collaboration with Bing” is confusing. This answer can be seen by searching for “blog about WordPress” - it said “in collaboration with Yandex”. It turns out that search results from other search engines are used? English-language queries for various regions gave more attractive results. Probably, the service does not fully function with Runet.
In general, personalization of search results is a controversial issue. The position of the creators of the DuckDuckGo search engine can be understood; it makes sense. But if you enter the same request for a restaurant in Google, it immediately shows a map and places nearby.
Comfortable or not is a rhetorical question. If a person is looking for an establishment nearby or in his city, then this makes his work much easier. On the other hand, to clarify the location, you can always add a phrase to the request.
Instant replies
Instant Answers, or Instant Answers, is another interesting feature of this search engine. The website duckduckgo.com says that the main goal of the service in the long term is to provide the user with specific answers to his queries, and not a set of links.
Therefore, for some distribution groups, special sources may be used. For example, in the English-speaking segment of the network, it is more convenient to search for restaurants through Yelp, music on SoundCloud, and weather on forecast.io. Somewhat reminiscent of Goggle's Knowledge Graph, which displays maximum data on the query page. But for the most part, it uses its own power, while DuckDuckGo search relies on third-party services.
In the list of instant responses you can find unusual options, for example, FedEx parcel tracking, base64 decoding function, the ability to count the number of characters in a line, identifying the IP address and file extension. In short, the duckduckgo com service is a so-so tool for getting answers to all occasions.
Search on third party sites
The DuckDuckGo search engine allows you to directly find data on many other sites: Amazon, Wikipedia. After entering the key phrase, you will be redirected to the appropriate service. Today there are more than 7,700 different requests. They can be found here.
For the comfort of users, they are sorted into sections: entertainment, news, multimedia, services, shopping, technology, translations. There is a search form with which you can instantly find a suitable request.
By the way, Yandex provides 16 different functions (from maps to translations). All requests and formats begin with an exclamation mark. The most popular ones are noted in the tips on duckduckgo.com. Just enter your query with an exclamation point! and you will see the suggested options.
Overall, this service is very interesting. There are original functions of the system, namely search on other sites and instant answers. Customizing the appearance of DuckDuckGo in your browser is also a cool idea. With the help of them and data confidentiality, the service can compete for an even larger percentage of Internet users.
Reviews were found online that the project was somewhat similar to the young Google, which focused only on its 10 blue lines in the search results. This is all good, but no one knows what the future holds. Somewhere in the review it was written that the DuckDuckGo search engine does not place advertising, but now it does.
You can disable the display of such ads, but all changes are inevitable. It’s one thing when a company has 5-10 employees, but when volumes increase, more and more calls and requests appear. If the system can retain its main features, the audience will appreciate it.
Not Evil is based on the Tor anonymous network. In order to use this search engine, you need a special browser, for example, Tor.
With Not Evil you can get into places where law-abiding citizens are prohibited from entering. Unfortunately, the authorities continue to block Internet projects without any reason, and they are not going to stop. Not Evil is the key to all doors.
Not Evil is a system that searches the Tor anonymous network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example, by launching a special browser of the same name. Not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind.
There is Look (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. Today we'll focus on Not Evil because of an interesting hint about Google itself (just look at the start page). This system searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are denied access in principle.
There are a lot of resources on the Tor network that are impossible to find on the law-abiding Internet. And as government control over Internet content tightens, their number will increase. Tor is a kind of network within a network: with its own social networks, media, torrent trackers, trading platforms, blogs, libraries and the like.
Using this search engine, you can save a lot of your time and maintain complete confidentiality. Very simple and intuitive interface. Previously, this project was called TorSearch, and it had a fairly impressive audience. The search results are good, but it is still very far from ideal.
YaCy
YaCy functions in the same way as P2P networks. Any device (computer, tablet or smartphone) on which this search engine is installed independently searches for information. In other words, it turns into a search robot.
Access to the results is provided to everyone who has downloaded YaCa. These results may include data from the depths of the Internet and non-indexed pages.
It is impossible to say whether this search engine is better or worse than others, since it is built differently. But due to the lack of a shared server, two things are obvious: the output is not affected by previous actions and censorship is impossible.
YaCy is a decentralized search engine that operates on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is activated scans the Internet independently, that is, it is analogous to a search robot. The results obtained are collected into a single database, which is used by all YaCy participants.
How is this service better than other systems?
This is a completely different approach to searching. The absence of a common server and owner company makes the results independent of anyone's preferences. If you are a supporter of open source software and a free internet that is not controlled by government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is a good choice.
It also allows you to search within a corporate or other autonomous network. And although YaCy is not very useful to use, it is considered a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
Key features and advantages of YaCy:
- Decentralized search and index storage – on the DHT network.
- Work in three modes: global search index, group index and local index.
- No advertising.
- Absence of any censorship.
- Wide range of settings.
Main disadvantages:
- Search time (due to the decentralized nature, searching for unclaimed content can take a long time.
- Relevance (the relevance algorithm has been redesigned over these three years, but it still falls short of the search giants).
What has changed in 3 years?
- Support for Russian-language search queries was introduced.
- Hints appeared when you entered your search query.
- Anticipatory search - while you are typing, the service is already searching for your content.
- The search and search algorithms have become better - more relevant results and millions of other small changes under the hood.
How does YaCy work?
Indexing can be done in the following ways:
- forced indication of the start of scanning;
- remote request from another peer;
- setting up proxying of all requests from the browser to YaCy with further indexing of what you read.
After compiling the database, it is stored locally, sending information to the network that you have it, and distributed via DHT to neighboring peers. During the search, YaCy first looks for results in the local index, and then in the global one, contacting peers via DHT who have information about the index of a particular request.
Pipl
Pipl was created to search for a specific person. The authors of this search engine claim that it is more effective than Google and Yandex, as it relies on pages on social networks, lists and all kinds of databases.
Pipl has one drawback - it does a poor job of finding people in Russia. But if you need to find a relative or friend from the USA, then go ahead.
The wider the World Wide Web, the more often it is used to find people and information about them. Now we are not talking about a dating site, but about situations when you need to find contacts or information about a certain person. If we talk about social networks, then you can only find data about registered users there.
To solve global problems it is necessary to use special search engines. The most advanced service for free people search on the Internet is Pipl.
This system allows you to find people by last name, first name, nickname, email address, phone number, and you can additionally mark their location. The request is entered in various languages. The search results include links to personal profiles on Google Profiles, Facebook, professional profiles on LinkedIn, microblogs on Twitter and other resources.
If the name is in English, then in the second stage of the search you can narrow it down using filters, noting the country, region, and age of the person. A special feature of this service is that it accesses deep Internet sources, access to which is limited, and the information available on them is not indexed by simple search robots.
But the volume is very large, the hidden Internet correlates with the surface ones like the underwater part of an iceberg with the visible one, only there is hundreds of times more data there.
The source of information is not only profiles on social networks, an analysis is made of closed databases, resumes, questionnaires filled out by users of various resources - online trading platforms, online auctions like Amazon, messaging systems like ICQ.
By collecting information about different people piece by piece, the Pipl system creates its own dossier on each person, more detailed than on other resources. A unique identification mechanism is used to help you find the person you need.
Registered Pipl users agree to the processing of their personal data and adding it to the system database, which is constantly expanding. Users cannot be persons under 13 years of age. The list of links leads from Pipl to partner sites.
One of them, spokeo.com, allows you to access hidden profiles on social networks, on the other, peoplefinders.com, you can find out the addresses and phone numbers of search targets for a fee, and the resource InstantCheckmate.com has data on the arrests and convictions of various people.
FindSounds
Just like Pipl, it is a specialized search engine. But unlike him, he is not looking for people, but for sounds - nature, cars, etc. in sources open to everyone. This search engine does not process requests in Russian, but you can solve the problem through tags, which are in abundance.
FindSounds has no photos, no videos, nothing else except sounds. In the settings, you can check the box next to one of the formats and quality of the audio track. All sounds that will be displayed can be downloaded to your computer, which is very convenient. It is possible to download a sample and use it to search for something similar.
To get an idea of the type of sounds that FindSounds searches for, you can check out the impressive list of examples. The service supports the great and mighty Russian language, so you can explore a far from complete list of possible sounds and effects on the page with examples.
The search result in FindSounds looks unusual. In addition to a link to the file, there is its frequency response, a mini-leader (to listen to a sound or effect at the moment), and even buttons to “send this sound by email” or “tweet this sound.” When searching in FindSounds, you can use the following settings:
- file format - AIFF, AU, MP3, WAVE;
- number of channels - mono, stereo;
- sampling depth (bit depth) - 8-bit, 16-bit;
- sampling frequency - 8000 HZ - 44100 HZ;
- maximum file size is from 16K to 2Mb.
FindSounds is a highly specialized tool, so it will be useful for musicians, online beat developers or professional DJs. It will also appeal to ordinary users who want to diversify the operating system environment with sound effects. This service has an impressive index of sounds of a very different nature, which makes it unique in conditions of low competition.
FindSounds has a list of unique add-ons:
- Waveform Display Results – here the results appear in the form of a colorful image. Based on the shape of the graph on it, you can judge the content of the found sound file. This is usually a graph of volume versus time. The color of the graph also changes, it all depends on the frequency group. This is very useful for sound engineers and other users who deal with sound professionally. A special program, FindSounds Palette, comes to help in reading graphics.
- Find Similar Results – allows you to expand your search by showing similar results. Used as a last resort because the level of relevance is low.
- Show Page – opens the page on which the searched sound fragment was identified.
But when using this unusual search engine, you need to remember the warning:
“When you search for sound effects, when you use FindSounds.com, you get links to sound clips found on websites around the world. The sound effects contained in the found sound clips are subject to national and international copyright laws. We do not give permission for their use."
In simple words, you just need to write to the owner of this file and ask for permission to use it.
WolframAlpha is a real treasure for those whose educational or professional activities are related to computing. Instead of standard results (links to sites), this search engine provides a ready-made answer to the question. Try typing “compare populations in Moscow and St. Petersburg.” You will see a large number of charts, graphs and tables with detailed explanations.
With WolframAlpha, you don't have to waste time analyzing and organizing information. The search robot will do everything itself and show only the result.
Features of WolframAlpha
In addition to Google, you can use other search tools. For example, WolframAlpha is a popular intelligent search platform that can also search the Internet. But this service is different in that it can process requests in natural language and understand them, and as a result of its work, provide an accurate answer to the question or request.
WolframAlpha is a one-stop reference where you can find almost anything with just a little effort. Unlike Google or other standard search engines, the results in WolframAlpha provide a ready answer to the question, and not pages on which you still need to find the information of interest.
Therefore, this service saves a lot of time and effort and can be used very actively in fact checking. Below is a list of possible use cases for WolframAlpha:
- The service helps you find detailed information about famous people and events. You can find anything on the Internet, but WolframAlpha makes this list simple and convenient. In particular, this applies to searching for information about famous people. WolframAlpha algorithms are able to piece together and provide in a convenient format almost everything that is on the Internet. It is important to put the request correctly. For example, using Wolfram Alpha, you can find out which films starred two actors at once, or which video games were released in a certain month. The service will provide a list of Nobel laureates of a certain year, indicating age, place of birth, field of science. Wolfram Alpha will find the first phrase of a classic novel or bible.
- The service works great with dates. Querying Wolfram Alpha in date form produces an interesting result. For example, if you specify a date as a query, the search engine will calculate how many days, weeks, months and years ago it was or will be. For dates from the past, the service displays important events that happened on that day - the beginning of wars, famous plane crashes and natural disasters, historical events or the birth dates of famous people. If you set a date range (within reasonable limits), the service will display the most important events that occurred in a certain period. Don’t expect Wolfram Alpha to handle a decade-long gap correctly, but six months to a year is a completely reasonable period during which the service can work as the user needs.
- Weather on a certain day. Working with dates in Wolfram Alpha is done in such a variety of ways that within the framework of our review we will not be able to talk in detail about all the capabilities of this service. This means that for fact checking - quickly and comfortably, without much googling and sifting through web resources, through the efforts of webmasters - Wolfram Alpha will instantly produce the correct and clear result. For example, the service makes it easy to find out what the weather was like on a certain day in a designated city. Thorough geographic information about the city will immediately be displayed, supplemented by a map with weather dynamics in the desired city over the past 50 years. Moreover, you can specify a query about climate - Wolfram Alpha answers this question perfectly.
- Comparisons using Wolfram Alpha. The service has a very convenient comparison tool. Simply write two concepts separated by commas or supplement them with a qualifying word, and Wolfram Alpha will perform a comparative analysis and display a convenient table. For example, you can compare the population of two cities, two bicycles, airplanes. Thus, you can compare the traffic of two web resources and other information about them, about two magazines or programs.
- Identifying pictures using Wolfram Alpha. The service has its own picture identification project. Unlike reverse search services, this service cannot recognize who is in the picture. His task is to answer the question of what exactly is shown in the picture. For example, it can recognize a car, truck, airplane, household appliances, and so on. The developers of Wolfram Alpha note that such smart image search is a much more difficult task than answering the most complex text queries, and they promise to modernize this service in the future.
- Identifying parameters for photography. Many modern digital cameras can calculate depth of field and aperture, but you can turn to Wolfram Alpha for help with this task. You need to ask a question about the depth of field, and the service will calculate the aperture number and focal length. Wolfram Alpha can calculate main aperture parameters, hyperfocal distance and a number of other parameters.
According to the inventors, Dogpile has a special ranking algorithm; it collects and displays the best of the best. Indispensable if you cannot find information either in Google or Yandex. And this happens, believe me, especially when you are trying to find out something serious, to get to the bottom of the truth.
A pleasant bonus of Dogpile, which cannot be ignored, is a minimum of advertising.
BoardReader allows you to search for information on social networks, forums, question-answer services and other platforms with predominantly text content.
BoardReader has several filters. You can find a post and its comments based on criteria such as language, site name, and day of publication.
This search engine will be useful to PR specialists and all other media specialists who study the public’s opinion on a particular topic.
Finally
Alternative search engines don't have the best fortune. Some of them die very quickly, without even living for a couple of years, while others, although they remain, serve less than one percent of the target audience of Google and Yandex and, accordingly, do not have solid financial prospects.
If you go through the examples in the article again, you will see that alternative search engines either concentrate in a narrow area that the giants Google and Yandex have not yet paid attention to, or they check some kind of ranking algorithm.
If more people need to search the Tor anonymous network than now, then Google and Yandex will definitely offer something similar. This also applies to other features of alternative search engines.
Be that as it may, alternative search engines provide what Google and Yandex are not capable of. And that's great.
This rating is based on the number of users around the world and consists of widely known search engines for Russian audiences to completely unfamiliar search engines for Internet users. What systems do you personally know? Yandex and Google - most users will definitely answer. Some may recall the already forgotten, but no less popular Yahoo, in demand among users of the Odnoklassniki social network Mail, and it is probably worth mentioning the Bing search engine, popular among owners of Nokia smartphones for installing mobile applications. In fact, these search engines are not limited to the vast expanses of the Internet community. Many countries around the world have their own favorite and not so favorite search engines, about which you know little, but which in one way or another may be of interest to Russian users with their interface, design and capabilities. So, let's begin our review of the best search engines based on the results of the analysis of COMPUTEST specialists.
The top ten search engines are ranked as follows.
Yandex is the most popular search engine in the Russian Federation and post-Soviet countries. The search engine is distinguished by a huge number of auxiliary services for the convenience and leisure of users. Here you can find music, radio, public transport schedules, advertisements for renting and selling real estate, taxis, in short, everything that people might be interested in. Moreover, the site interface allows you to select and install an individual design for each user to suit your taste.
Google is predicted to be in second place in our chart. More than 30% of traffic comes from US residents. In addition to search queries, Google is the most visited website on the globe with an average daily duration of more than 9 minutes. The advantages of PS include the absence of unnecessary details - only a search bar and a brand logo. The highlight of the search engine are cool animations and games during the holidays.
Microsoft's Bing search engine was first launched in 2009. Since then, it has become an integral attribute of gadgets with the Windows operating system installed. Bing also does not have a rich interface - on the main page you can find the main Microsoft products and a line with the name of the PS. The search engine is most popular in the USA (33%), China (17%) and Germany (6%).
An honorable third place belongs to one of the oldest search engines. The majority of users are also located in the United States and make up about a quarter of the rest of the users in the world (India, Indonesia, Taiwan and Albion). In addition to the search bar, on the Yahoo! You can find the weather forecast for the corresponding region, as well as the news feed.
At the fourth stage is the PS from China, which in the Russian Federation is famous for its aggressive policy and lack of translation. Another negative thing about this search engine is that any extensions are perceived as viruses that are almost impossible to remove. The lion's share (91%) of Baidu users are Chinese citizens.
The decoding of the name of this search engine sounds like America Online. AOL enjoyed popularity in the early 2000s, at a time when a large number of users showed interest in the search engine. Today, AOL's audience is more than 65% of Americans.
This PS was founded in 1995 and differs significantly from those presented above in its interface. Search queries are perceived by the system as questions and the search results no longer offer amateur answers, but full-fledged, detailed articles. In terms of functionality, this is similar to the Mail response application. Today, the popularity of the search engine has dropped significantly, but, nevertheless, this allowed it to take 6th position in our rating.
This search engine does not have any distinctive features from other sites. All the same weather, news, mail and a number of standard services. Interface design has changed little from the 90s to today.
This search engine has a bright, stylish design that matches the spirit of the times. Here you can see funny cartoon pictures, and a significant advantage of the duck search engine is the translation of the site into Russian. Recently, the search engine has significantly strengthened its position among the best services in the world ranking.
A distinctive feature of the bottom search engine is the huge number of related services related to queries in various fields of science and technology. In response to a search query, you will not see standard links to articles on the Internet or posts in forums. The search engine immediately offers specifics - only numbers and facts. The presented search engine is perfect for students, researchers or schoolchildren and will become an indispensable assistant for studies and dissertations.
Beware, spoilers! By far the best search engine of 2018 is Google; D. Anecdote). Obviously, Google is at the top of the sky when compared to other search engines. Although we cannot compare other search engines with Google, but if you want to try something else, you should take a look at the top search engines listed below in this article.
Why do we need alternative search engines for Google?
This may be a question you may be faced with. Yes, this is a good question and I have an answer to this question. I will explain this to you with one example: what will happen if a city has only one store in the city to get every daily need? Obviously, the store will only stock items that have a good profit margin, even if they are not of the best quality.
Likewise, if there is only one search engine on the Internet, then there is a good chance of a monopoly on that single search engine.
We are all familiar with Google ads at the top of search results that favor some of the sites that pay Google to get that position for a relevant keyword search. Therefore, we cannot say that the results we see in the search are legitimate.
| № | Website | Average time on site | Attendance per month | Average number of open pages per visit | Rejection rate |
| 1 | google.com | 0:09:12 | 42.6 billion | 9,14 | 31,05% |
| 2 | baidu.com | 0:07:25 | 10.6 billion | 8,01 | 35,63% |
| 3 | yandex.ru | 0:10:50 | 2.9 billion | 9,17 | 25,61% |
| 4 | sogou.com | 0:04:17 | 1.5 billion | 4,51 | 41,15% |
| 5 | bing.com | 0:06:09 | 1.2 billion | 5,72 | 46,76% |
| 6 | yidianzixun.com | 0:02:55 | 1.1 billion | 2,61 | 69,92% |
| 7 | Yahoo.com | 0:06:35 | 4.5 billion | 6, 48 | 36,20% |
| 8 | duckduckgo.com | 0:08:56 | 421.5 million | 7,03 | 20,98% |
| 9 | ask.com | 0:04:22 | 165.1 million | 2,46 | 43,23% |
| 10 | Aoi | 0:05:28 | 230.1 million | 4, 59 | 37,45% |
Here are the best internet search engines that can give you more search options. Let's start with the obvious.
What do you think is the largest search engine in the world? Google of course. Well, who is following him? Yandex, Bing, Baidu? Next, we look at the ranking of search engines in the world, as of May 1, 2017.
Among computers.
- Google – Global – 79.79%
- Bing - 7.13%
- Baidu - 6.77%
- Yahoo – Global – 5.20%
- Ask – Global – 0.14%
- AOL – Global – 0.05%
- Excite – Global – 0.01%
Here's what it looks like in diagram form.
And here is how the shares of search engines changed throughout the year.
Among mobile.
- Google – Global – 96.10%
- Yahoo – Global – 1.65%
- Bing - 0.88%
- Baidu - 0.60%
- Ask – Global – 0.04%
- AOL – Global – 0.00%
And here is the diagram
But among mobile phones, in annual terms, almost nothing has changed. Although this is understandable. Google is the absolute leader here.
At the beginning of the period, Google's share was 95.37%, at the end of the period 96.1%. Now you can see why Google is so actively promoting its mobile platform. Because it allows it to lead in the number of search queries in the mobile segment.
However, the statistics on individual search sites in the computer version are interesting.
- 1.Google - 23.82%
- 2.Google India - 15.15%
- 3.Bing - 7.13%
- 4.Baidu - 6.77%
- 5.Yahoo! Web Sites - 4.25%
- 26.Google Russia - 0.71%
- 82.Yandex (Russia) - 0.043%
10th place in the world - Google Russia - 1.46%
74th place in the world - Yandex (Russia) - 0.06%
The most popular Russian-language search engines.
But these were statistics common to the whole world. But on the Russian-language Internet, the situation is completely different. The situation is different, but the trends are the same. Namely, Google has become a leader in this segment of the Internet. True, the gap is still very small. For comparison, I will give the figures from a year ago, that is, for May 2016, and today’s figures, for May 2017. Data from Liveinternet information
May 2017.
- Google - 49.7%
- Yandex – 45.0%
- Mail.ru - 4.6%
- Rambler - 0.3%
- Bing – 0.2%
- Yandex – 50.0%
- Google – 43.0%
- Search.Mail.ru — 6.0%
- Rambler - 0.4%
- Bing - 0.4%
In these statistics, both the version for computers and for mobile phones are taken into account at the same time.
Conclusion.
Internet search is a business worth tens of billions of dollars annually. And the competition here is very tough. And although Google is a global leader, it has strong regional and global competitors. A clear regional competitor is Yandex, which, however, lost its leadership this month.
There is another regional competitor - Chinese Baidu. Which, due to the fact that it is a leader in China, occupies high positions in the world rankings.
As expected, Google took first place in the world rankings. His share is more than 70% of search queries from residents from all over the world. Moreover, a third of all google.com traffic comes from US citizens. In addition, Google is the most visited website in the world. The average daily duration of use of the Google search engine is 9 minutes.
The advantage of the Google search engine is the absence of unnecessary elements on the page. Just a search bar and the company logo. Chip are animated pictures and browser games dedicated to popular and local holidays.
2. Bing
Bing - search engine from Microsoft, dating back to 2009. From that moment on, it became a mandatory attribute of smartphones running Windows OS. Bing is also distinguished by minimalism - in addition to the header with a list of all Microsoft products, the page contains only a search bar and the name of the system. Bing is most popular in the USA (31%), China (18%) and Germany (6%).
3. Yahoo!
Third place went to one of the oldest search engines - Yahoo. The bulk of users also live in the USA (24%). It seems that the rest of the world is deliberately avoiding the help of search robots... The search engine is also popular in India, Indonesia, Taiwan and the UK. In addition to the search bar, on the Yahoo! offers a weather forecast in your region, as well as global trends in the form of a news feed.
4. Baidu
A Chinese search engine that has gained notoriety in Russia. Due to its aggressive policy and lack of translation into Russian or English, extensions of this search engine are perceived as viruses. It is very difficult to completely remove them and get rid of pop-up windows with hieroglyphs. However, this site is fourth in the world by attendance. 92% of its audience are Chinese citizens.
5. AOL
AOL is an American search engine whose name stands for America Online. Its popularity is significantly lower than that of previous systems. Its heyday was in the 90s and 00s. Almost 70% of AOL's audience are residents of the United States.
6.Ask.com
This search engine, dating back to 1995, has quite unusual interface. She perceives all requests as questions and offers answer options in accordance with the search results. This is somewhat reminiscent of the Answers.Mail service. However, it is not amateur answers that are included in the search results, but full-fledged articles. Over the past year, the site has lost about 50 positions in the world ranking of the most popular Internet resources and today ranks only 104th.
7.Excite
This search engine is unremarkable and similar to a lot of other sites. It offers users a lot of services (such as News, Mail, Weather, Travel, etc.) The site's interface also evokes memories of the web of the 90s and, one might assume, has changed little since then.
8.DuckDuckGo
The developers immediately warn that this search engine does not track your actions online. Nowadays, this is a significant argument when choosing a search engine. The site design is made in a modern manner, using bright colors and funny pictures. Unlike other search engines, the “duck search engine” has been translated into Russian. Over the past year, the site has gained about 400 positions and in March 2017. is ranked 504th in the Alexa popularity rankings.
9. Wolfram Alpha
A distinctive feature of this search is the variety of auxiliary services designed for queries related to certain knowledge. That is, in the search results you will not see links to posts on social networks or articles from the yellow press. You will be offered specific numbers and verified facts in the form of a single document. This browser is ideal for schoolchildren and students.
10. Yandex
Search engine, the most popular in Russia and the CIS countries. In addition, about 3% of the site's audience are residents of Germany. The site is notable for its large number of services for all occasions (music, radio, public transport schedules, real estate, translator, etc.). The resource also offers a large selection of individual website design, as well as customizing widgets. Yandex ranks 31st in the world in popularity, having lost 11 positions over the past year.
