Everyone knows that Google is the most dominant company in the search engine market. But there are also some pretty good search engines which are all overshadowed by Google. Here I am gonna list the top 10 search engines which you can use it alternative to google.

1. Bing

Bing is the second largest search engine behind Google. it was owned by Microsoft. It was launched in 2009 with 40 languages available now. You can see the background picture in bing home page where the image will be kept on changing every day with different locations, places, animals, sports and animals, etc., the user experience will be very much good as using Google. You may try it. Bing Alexa rank was 32 as of April 2020.

URL: https://www.bing.com/

2. Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go is a US-based search engine shortly called DDG, It is an open-source platform launched in 2008 serving worldwide. The search engine named regarding the game Duck, Duck, Goose. DDG is well known for user privacy. It is one of the most emerging search engines. While using Mozilla Firefox you may be noticed that Duck Duck Go is the default search engine and for iOS users you can also set Duck Duck Go as a default search engine in safari.

URL: https://duckduckgo.com/

3. Yahoo

Yahoo was founded in 1994 before google entering the internet world. It was one of the most popular search engines in the 1990s. but still it is the third most used search engine today. Yahoo was accessible in 38 international languages. Yahoo finance and weather prediction were the most used tools of Yahoo. other such famous tools were Yahoo answers, Yahoo local, Yahoo News, Yahoo Mail. Recently Yahoo has partnered with Microsoft.

URL: https://www.yahoo.com/

4. Baidu

Baidu is a Chinese multinational technology company, founded in 2000 with headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the largest internets and AI companies in the world. Over 70% of internet search was made on Baidu in China and 76% of search engine market share in China. It also ranks number fifth in Alexa as of January 2020. Baidu is well known for its censorship. Some kind of images and pro-documentary websites were blocked in Baidu

URL: https://www.baidu.com/

5. Yandex

Yandex is a Russian based Multinational Corporation specialized in providing internet service and products. It was found in 1997. Yandex was the 5th largest search engine next to Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo. with over 150 million search queries searched every day. It holds 60% of the search engine market share in Russia. The various services of Yandex include mail, cloud storage, map, videos, and images, etc.

URL: https://yandex.com/

6. Ask.com

Ask.com was founded in 1996. It previously called Ask Jeeves. renamed in 2006 as ask.com. It is basically a question-answer based e-business answer engine. Ask had 100 million global users every month. Ask ranks 172 in Alexa as of May 2019.

URL: http://www.ask.com/

7. AOL

Aol is an American online internet product and service provider. It was founded in 1983. Aol was formerly known in different names such as Control Video Corporation(1983- 1985), Quantum Computer Services(1985- 1991), America Online(1991- 2009). Verizon Media is the parent company. Its headquarter in New York City.

URL: https://www.aol.com/

8. Qwant

Qwant is a french based web search engine. It was launched in July 2013. Its headquarter in France. Qwant is available in 26 languages. It was also one of the user privacy based search where our searches were not recorded and will not be used for advertising purposes. Basically Qwant has 3 versions, the normal homepage version, a light version, and Qwant junior version for children. Qwant has 10 million searches every day and 50 million individual users every month. Qwant is the 86th most visited website in France and 1625th most visited website worldwide as of March 2020. Its Alexa ranking is 1929 as of May 2019

URL: https://www.qwant.com/

9. StartPage

Startpage was launched in 1998 as lxquick. It was also one of the user privacy based search engine. and this startpage is considered to be “The world’s most private search engine” of all. Where the user search history won’t be recorded and saved and also not targeting users based on the searches made. Startpage have their own URL generator, HTTPS support, and proxy service. Because of URL generator, it will neglect the need of collecting cookies. It was ranked no 1727 in Alexa as of May 2019.

URL: https://startpage.com/

10. wiki.com

This search engine only meant for Wikipedia searches. Here you can get all results in Wikipedia. The result you get is all Wikipedia pages in SERP. You can also run an Advertisement in Wiki.com.

URL: https://www.wiki.com/

And that’s it. This was my listing of the top 10 alternative search engines to Google. which was made based on my personal usage and various data available on the internet. I hope this short blog may help you.