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Wikipedia
List of search engines, their specialty, languages used, and provenance.

Wikipedia
Comparison of Search engines using tables using independent crawlers, owner, questions, digital rights, privacy. tracking, surveillance and more. 

THE THREE BIGS

Google
83% more people use Google than any other search engine. 

Bing
Microsoft affiliated. Has natural language ability. More visual. 

DuckDuckGo
Touts privacy. 

The 8 Best Search Engines of 2024: While you could use Google to find other search engines, here are the ones we think are arguably better
A well organized comparison article with excellent highlights.
 

• Privacy oriented i Alternatives

  • DuckDuckGo

  • Startpage - It provides Google search results without tracking, combining Google's search power with enhanced privacy. /Netherlands

  • Brave Search - privacy and speed. Has it's own index. It isn't impacted by search history. 

  • Qwant - France. Uses Bing  to deliver results but uses its own independent systems. Close partner of Microsoft and has Bin adds. “the search engine that doesn't know anything about you.” 

  • SwissCows - Anonymous search engine that is family friendly. Switzerland. “technology is built in such a way that the storage of user data is not even possible.” However, it has Microsoft ads embedded in search results. 
    Charity Project This is the number of your SwissCows searches. On average, 50 search queries finance a children's meal.

  • Giburu - does not track IP addresses, record searches or place cookies for advertisers. Delivers search results that doesn't always show on Google.
     

• Eco-Friendly and Socially Responsible Options

  • Ecosia - plants TREES! 

  • Yep - gives 90% of ad revenue to content creators. 

• International Search Engines

  • Yandex

  • Baidu

• Niche Search Engines: Specialized Tools for Specific Needs

  • CC Search

  • Boardreader

  • WolframAlpha

• Metasearch Engines: Aggregating Results from Multiple Sources

  • Dogpiel

  • Startpage

  • SearX

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• Decentalized
  • Presearch. It's decentralized and it has a nice UI where you can select alternative search engines to you can instantly check another search engine (or site) with the same query.

AI Based Search Engine

You.com - has AI assistant. Does have a private mode and personal. Relies on Bing, Imagine for AI image generation, and YouWrite text generation. 

Perplexity.ai - Just doesn't list web page and cites sources. It has a smart assistant named Copilot. Natural language ability

Komo - speed and privacy, interactive with follow up question (though...don't they all?) Google Search Generative Experience (SGE). (not rolled out yet in the Labs part of Google)  SGE is available visible on mobile

Notes in progress

1. SearX: This one's unique from the previous two, in that it's actually a "meta-search" engine that combines/ amalgamates the results of Google and Bing's web crawlers, then re-prioritizes them accordingly.

2. Brave: Kind of an outlier here, Bing is a relative newcomer to the scene, being only a few years old. They have both a browser and a search engine. What separates them from the competition, is apparently they're crafting their own independent web results/ crawler, completely separate from Google or Bing. Not sure if they've fully accomplished this by now. They and Duckduckgo are the names I hear come up the most when jt comes to un-censored search results and privacy/ tracking-free.

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