Top Search Engine Alternatives to Google

Welcome to the definitive source for comparing search engine alternatives to Google.

Our researchers have looked at 368 data points and more than 1800 analysis points. They have studied 39 integrations, 32 features, 46 search engine tools and over 1400 feature points.

Approximately 50% of the Earth’s population uses the internet, and that number is only climbing. Most individuals use the internet to connect with others in some way, for anything from financial services, video calls and emails, to shopping, texting and streaming music. Of course businesses use the internet also, for example: gathering data, advertising, keeping track of their competition and for customer service.

Why would anyone want an alternative to the Google search engine? Some concerns that people have with Google include: user privacy, manipulation and misuse of search results, tax avoidance, use of others’ intellectual property, and business concerns such as having a monopoly (more than 90% of searches are done on Google). Because people and businesses use the internet in so many different ways, it is important to find the search engine that fits each use case best.

We’ve performed a comprehensive research study to identify Google-alternative search engines that search the entire public internet. To be included in our study, the tool must require users to input text and give a list of matching results as an output. This list includes both paid and free search engines, and meta-search engines (if they search the entire web).

We have not included the following search engines for a number of reasons (e.g. broken site, incomplete search results or non-English language): Boardreader, Wolframalpha, Chacha, Blekko, Blog Search Engine, Wiki.com, Baidu, Disconnect Search, Kartoo, and Surfwax. We’ve also left out search engines that only search the dark web or ones that only search for specific information (e.g. http://www.blog searchengine.org/).

Search Engine Feature Strength is a number that was calculated by looking at how many features each search engine had, and the relative, subjective importance of each feature. You can reach out to us to layer in your own feature importance scoring before deciding on a solution.

Likewise, Search Engine Business Strength is a number that was derived from certain business-related qualities of each company, and our own (subjective) scoring of the importance of those qualities. There too, you’ll want to give your own importance rating to derive your own, custom scatter plot:

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We’ve used the Likert Scale to calculate a score for software features and business attributes. Our list also includes many other considerations such as which features each search engine provides, age or launch date, pricing and Domain Authority score.

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Tool	Age
Lycos	24.0 Yrs
Search	24.0 Yrs
Excite	24.0 Yrs
Webcrawler	24.0 Yrs
InfoSpace	23.9 Yrs
Metacrawler	23.9 Yrs
Dogpile	23.8 Yrs
BestoftheWeb	23.8 Yrs
Internet Archive	23.8 Yrs
Yippy	23.7 Yrs
Info	23.5 Yrs
Aol	22.8 Yrs
Ask	21.8 Yrs
Startpage	21.8 Yrs
Entireweb	21.8 Yrs
Gigablast	20.8 Yrs
Lukol	20.6 Yrs
SearchEngineZ	20.4 Yrs
MetaGer	19.5 Yrs
Exactseek	19.5 Yrs
Bing	18.8 Yrs
Yandex	18.2 Yrs
Qwant	18.2 Yrs
giveWater	17.1 Yrs
YaCy	16.1 Yrs
Mojeek	15.8 Yrs
Yahoo	15.0 Yrs
Lemmefind	14.8 Yrs
Goodsearch	14.2 Yrs
Sputtr	13.4 Yrs
BabyLon	13.3 Yrs
Symbaloo	13.3 Yrs
DuckDuckGo	12.1 Yrs
Ecosia	10.8 Yrs
CuteStat	10.8 Yrs
Gibiru	9.8 Yrs
Ekoru	9.1 Yrs
Million Short	8.4 Yrs
ZOO	7.0 Yrs

Tool	Score
Bing	7.72
Internet Archive	7.72
Yahoo	7.68
Yandex	7.6
DuckDuckGo	7.56
Lycos	7.52
Ask	7.4
Ecosia	7.28
Startpage	7.24
Qwant	7.24
Excite	7.24
Goodsearch	7.2
Aol	7.16
Webcrawler	7.12
Dogpile	7.08
Symbaloo	7.08
InfoSpace	7.04
Search	7.04
BabyLon	7
Exactseek	7
BestoftheWeb	7
Kiddle	6.96
Metacrawler	6.96
Entireweb	6.88
CuteStat	6.88
Gigablast	6.84
Yippy	6.8
Info	6.8
YaCy	6.8
Mojeek	6.12
MetaGer	5.96
Gibiru	5.96
Million Short	5.96
ZOO	5.72
Givero	5.6
SearchEngineZ	5.28
Sputtr	5.2
Lukol	5.16
Ekoru	5.12

FEATURE DESCRIPTIONS
Web Search A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 43
Exact Search Search for the exact phrase, often using quotes. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 41
Incremental Auto-Complete Autocomplete is a feature within search engine designed to make it faster to complete searches that you’re beginning to type. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 35
Image Search Shows only images in the results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 34
News Search Provides the ability to keyword search across thousands of news sources found through crawling the web. Optionally also provides the ability to browse categories of news where headlines are assembled. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 30
Boolean Search Boolean search is a structured search process that allows the user to insert words or phrases such as AND, OR, NOT to limit, broaden and define the search results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 29
Site Specific Search This allows you to search just one domain — not the entire internet — for a particular search term. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 29
Video Search A video search engine is a web-based search engine which crawls the web for video content. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 28
Related Searches See a list of closely related, popular searches along with the results of your search. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 26
Search Within Results Provides the option to search within your previous search results, to search for a more specific topic within your original results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 24
Filter by Date The date filters let you filter results from the last day, weak and month, so that limits the search results you see. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 20
Anonymous Search Anonymous search is for privacy-conscious web users, who don’t want their search or browser related data harvested. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 19
Metasearch Engine Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 18
Safe Search SafeSearch is an automated filter of pornography and other offensive content that’s built into search engines. This feature makes the search engine a bit more family-friendly. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 17
Filter by Region Your custom search engine can be customized to prefer search results from a particular country or region. Results from other countries or regions may still appear with lower ranking. You can also customize your search engine to exclusively return results from the selected country or region, filtering out all other results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 13
Ad-Free Results The search engine does not show any ads in the results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 12
Maps Search Web-based service that provides detailed information about geographical regions and sites around the world. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 11
Filter by Language Filter criteria to support multi-language search, scoping query execution to language-specific fields. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 11
Usage Right or Copyright Filter Also know as Usage Right Filter. And this is a built-in feature of most search websites that allows a user to specify additional reaquirements for a search. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 11
Email Feature Also has a free or paid email service. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 11
Shopping Search Shopping search engines allow you to search specifically for products for sale from online merchants. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 7
Open Source Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use for any (including commercial) purpose, or modification from its original design. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 6
Music Search Search through only music files. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 5
Entertainment Search A search engine that allows users to search within the category of Enterntainment related results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 5
Search History A record of web pages recently visited by a computer user. The site provides personalized recommendations based on your recent browsing history. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 5
Sports Search Provides quick access to search for only sports-related results. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 4
Finance Search Searching Finance is the leading new financial services information provider. Authoritative and topical books, reports, analysis, discussion and more. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 3
Truth Censorship Or known as Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators, or on their own initiative. This includes political censorship, or censoring out information they deem to be false. This does not include adult-related content filters. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 3
Translate Support Translate/converts your search to another language and also have a built-in translator. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 3
Astrology Search Also known as Horoscope searching that discover Your Destiny Using This Unique Astrology Search Engine. Your Gateway to the world of Astrology, Palmistry, Numerology and Fortune Telling. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 2
Cloud Storage Feature You can save files, data, or anything in here this is just like a storage machine. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 2
Books Search Search only within the text or descriptions or metadata for books. Number of Search Engine that have this feature: 1

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Top Search Engine Alternatives to Google

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Bing

Bing Comparison Details

List of 20 Bing Features in order of popularity

Yandex

Yandex Comparison Details

List of 34 Yandex Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 18 Yandex Features in order of popularity

Swisscows

Swisscows Comparison Details

List of 4 Swisscows Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 13 Swisscows Features in order of popularity

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo Comparison Details

List of 18 DuckDuckGo Features in order of popularity

Startpage

Startpage Comparison Details

List of 16 Startpage Features in order of popularity

Ekoru

Ekoru Comparison Details

List of 11 Ekoru Features in order of popularity

Ecosia

Ecosia Comparison Details

List of 2 Ecosia Knowledge Base Integrations

List of 16 Ecosia Features in order of popularity

Internet Archive

Internet Archive Comparison Details

List of 19 Internet Archive Features in order of popularity

Dogpile

Dogpile Comparison Details

List of 9 Dogpile Features in order of popularity

Gigablast

Gigablast Comparison Details

List of 11 Gigablast Features in order of popularity

Ask

Ask Comparison Details

List of 12 Ask Features in order of popularity

Webcrawler

Webcrawler Comparison Details

List of 6 Webcrawler Features in order of popularity

Lycos

Lycos Comparison Details

List of 4 Lycos Features in order of popularity

InfoSpace

InfoSpace Comparison Details

List of 9 InfoSpace Features in order of popularity

Yahoo

Yahoo Comparison Details

List of 21 Yahoo Features in order of popularity

Search

Search Comparison Details

List of 8 Search Features in order of popularity

MetaGer

MetaGer Comparison Details

List of 13 MetaGer Features in order of popularity

Qwant

Qwant Comparison Details

List of 17 Qwant Features in order of popularity

Search Encrypt

Search Encrypt Comparison Details

List of 11 Search Encrypt Features in order of popularity

Gibiru

Gibiru Comparison Details

List of 12 Gibiru Features in order of popularity

Yippy

Yippy Comparison Details

List of 12 Yippy Features in order of popularity

Oscobo

Oscobo Comparison Details

List of 9 Oscobo Features in order of popularity

Lukol

Lukol Comparison Details

List of 7 Lukol Features in order of popularity

Aol