Top 12 Best Search Engines in The World (2023)

FAQs

What is the number 1 search engine in the world? ›

1. Google. With over 80% of the search market share, Google is undoubtedly the most popular search engine.

Bing. Bing is a search engine by Microsoft and is second in terms of market share after Google. It was launched in 2009, and its origin traces back to earlier search engines offered by Microsoft, such as MSN Search and Live Search. You can perform the same kind of searches on Bing as you would do on Google.

The second largest search engine in the world is actually YouTube (which is owned by Google… meaning they dominate the first two spots). YouTube is the second largest search engine when you consider users, searches, and minutes spent on site.

While TikTok may be known primarily as a social media platform for sharing short videos, it is also becoming a powerful search engine in its own right.

Privacy. Google shares data across many different services, including embedded services in millions of third-party websites. Ecosia, in contrast, is one of the most privacy-friendly alternative search engines.

What are the 3 types of search engines? ›

There are three main types of search engines, web crawlers, directories, and sponsored links. Search engines typically use a number of methods to collect and retrieve their results. These include: Crawler databases.

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is privately owned. Indeed as reported by Crunchbase, it received over $170 million in funding from several investors, comprising Union Square Ventures (led by Fred Wilson). DuckDuckGo's business model proposes itself as an alternative to Google's business model.

The United States of America

The company was established in America, where its headquarters is located. For the same reason, the search engines Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo are popular in the United States.

As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft's search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009. The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, and easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world.

1. Google. With over 86% of the search market share, one hardly needs to introduce readers to Google. However, it clearly needs to head up any list of search engines.

2. DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo is easily the most well-known private search engine around—and the antithesis to Google when it comes to favoring user privacy. (Though, it does monetize from user searches.)

DuckDuckGo is fairly safe and offers much more privacy than mainstream browsers. First of all, DuckDuckGo's main appeal is your search privacy. This means that DuckDuckGo doesn't collect user data and track your search history. Unlike Google, it doesn't associate what you look for online with your IP address.

Who owns TikTok? ›

The news aggregator eventually became ByteDance — now valued at around $360 billion, according to PitchBook — and owns TikTok; its Chinese sister app, Douyin; and various education and enterprise software ventures.

Short answer: no. TikTok is an internal search engine for TikTok content.

Younger users are using social platforms instead of search engines, but a study suggests a fifth of TikTok results contain misinformation. Google is unbeatable.

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is a popular privacy search engine. Like Brave, DDG doesn't build user profiles, so it will always show the same search results to all users. And it prevents online tracking of searches or clicks.

As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft's search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009. The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, and easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world.

Microsoft is rebranding its Bing search engine to Microsoft Bing today as part of a rebranding effort. While the vast majority of people are likely to still just call it Bing, Microsoft unveiled its shift toward Microsoft Bing in a blog post today.

DuckDuckGo uses over 400 sources to provide results, including sources such as: Bing. Yahoo. Apple Maps.

What is the safest search engine? ›

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is privately owned. Indeed as reported by Crunchbase, it received over $170 million in funding from several investors, comprising Union Square Ventures (led by Fred Wilson). DuckDuckGo's business model proposes itself as an alternative to Google's business model.

Google has a lot bigger data: Most search engine algorithms rely on past user data to power the current version of algorithms. Google, having 5 to 6x the market share of Bing, has 5 to 6x the data to analyze and use for its algorithms. All things being equal, bigger and better data wins over better algorithms.

Bing offers users more autocomplete suggestions compared to what Google does. Bing offers users eight while Google offers four. This is mostly useful if you use autocomplete to search for alternative products or when searching for wildcard suggestions. Compared to Google, Bing has a significantly better video search.

Bing ranks second with a market share of 2.27%. For mobile devices only, Google share is even more significant—94.84%, while Bing's is only 0.42%. However, Bing seems to be more popular on desktop computers, with a 5.53% market share, while Google's is 87.28%.

Research has revealed that the typical user on Bing is generally over the age of 35, most commonly between the ages of 55 and 64, and most are parents.

DuckDuckGo is an American company

It was developed by Duck Duck Go, Inc. which is an American origin company. The CEO and also the founder of DuckDuckGo.com is Gabriel Weinberg.

What's better than DuckDuckGo? ›

You don't risk infecting your computer or mobile with a virus by using the DuckDuckGo search engine. However, you should pay attention to the websites you navigate to from the SERP. Avoid anything that doesn't seem completely trustworthy and install an antivirus if you want an additional layer of protection.