10 Most Popular Search Engines in the World

The search engine is a software system which is designed to search for any kind of information on the World Wide Web. All the search results are presented by search engines in a line of results that is referred to as search engine results pages. The searched information may be a collection of web pages, videos, images, and other types of files.

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR SEARCH ENGINES IN THE WORLD

Google.com

The Google is one of the most visited and popular search engines in the World, which is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were Ph.D Students at Stanford University. Now, it is an American multinational technology company, which offer Internet related services and products, including on-line advertising technology, Search, software and cloud computing. The profit sources are derived from Adwards feature, which an on-line advertising service that places advertising near the search results on the Search engine result page. The Google.com domain name was registered on September 15, 1997 and it was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was started in the garage of a friend, Susan Wojcicki in Menlo Park, California.

The Google has been run approximate one million servers in data centers around the world and its processes over one billion search requests and approximate 24 petabytes of user-generated data every day. In the December 2013, The Alexa shows Google.com is one of the most visited website in the world. Google also owned many sites such as Blogger and YouTube.

Bing.com

Bing is ranked the second most visited search engine in the World, which is owned and operated by Microsoft. This search engine provides a many search services, including, search, video, images and map search. The Bing uses the ASP.Net programming language and follows the complete design principles of Microsoft’s.

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The Bing, Search engine is launched in the year 2009 by the American software company “Microsoft Corporation”. The Microsoft hoped to change the dynamic search results with the release of Bing, with designs to display more retrieved information in search pages. It is also displayed the related search results and the user’s previous searches on the left side of the web page.

Yahoo.com

Yahoo is another most visited web search engine in the World owned by Yahoo. As of the February 2015 report it is the third largest search engine in the US and World by the search query volume at 12.9%, after its Tough competitors Google at 68.5% and Bing at 17.4%. The Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in the year 1994 and it was incorporated on March 1, 1995. According to media sources, approximately 800 million people every month visit on Yahoo websites.

Yahoo is an American based multinational technology company which headquartered placed in Sunnyvale, California. The Yahoo is widely known for Web portal, Search engine and related services, including Yahoo Mail, Directory, News, Finance, Sports, advertising, social media, etc. In 2015, the company announced it planned to spin-off its stake in Alibaba Group and In December 2015 it canceled this decision.

ASK.com

Ask.com is originally known as Ask Jeeves, which is a question answering site. The Web search engine is started in the year 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in California. The Ask now reaches approximate 150 million users around the World per month through its website and more than 2.5 million downloads of its mobile App. The Ask.com is presently owned by the InterActiveCorp (IAC) under the NASDAQ.

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In December 2007, The Ask released the Ask Eraser feature, which allowing users to opt-out from search engine tracking and cookie values. The user also vowed to erase this data after 18 months if the Ask Eraser option is not set.

AOL

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AOL Inc. is an American global mass media based company which is located in New Jersey that develops, grows and invests in popular brands and ranked Web sites, like, The Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch. Basically the company’s business spans distribution of content, products and many other services. The AOL began in the year 1983, as a Control Video Corporation (CVC), which is founded by Bill Von Meister.

WOW

Wow! Was an online service which is run by Compuserve.com in the year 1996, it was an improved version of CompuServe’s software, but it was announced later. The Wow! Was the first online service to be offered with a monthly basis “unlimited” rate ($17.95).

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an seventh most popular search engine in the World that emphasizes protecting searchers privacy and also avoids the filter bubble of personal searches. The DuckDuckGo is located in 20 Paoli Pike, Pennsylvania, United State and has 21 employees. The company name derived from the children’s game DuckDuckGo.

The DuckDuckGo was founded by the Gabriel Weinberg, which is now advertising supported. This search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, Linux and FreeBSD. On 18 September 2014, Apple included the DuckDuckGo in its Safari browser as an optional search engine and On 10 November 2014, Mozilla also added DuckDuckGo as a search option to Firefox.

Dogpile

Dogpile is another popular search engine that fetches all search results from Goole, Yandex, Yahoo and many other popular search engines. The Dogpile was developed by Aaron Flin began in November 1995 and later sold to Go2net. It was primarily symbolized by a dog mascot from April 2001 to April 2007. Named Arfie, it was nice featured in different themes from seasonal to holidays.

In April 2005, The Dogpile has collaborated with researchers from the University o Pittsburg and Pennsylvania State University to measure the ranking differences of leading Web search engines.

Yellow Pages – It is allows you to do a search using the Yellow Pages.

White Pages – it allows you to do a search by using the White Pages.

InfoSpace

InfoSpace also known as Blucora, which is an Internet related service provider. It is most commonly same as being search engines. The company was founded by NaveenJain as Infospace in March 1996, after being left the company to Microsoft and he served as CEO until the year 2000. The company was started with only six employees, built an on-line yellow pages service to be funded through advertising.

IxQuick

IxQuick is located in New York that is a Meta search engine based. The company was founded by David Bodnick in the year 1998, and it is owned by the Surfboard Holding BV of the Netherlands, which acquired the Internet based company in h year 2000. The Ixquick is developing a privacy protecting E-mail service, which called Start Mail.

The Ixquick was re-launched in the year 2005, with many new exciting features including a new Meta search algorithm, an international phone and lowest price directory. It was awarded by the first European Privacy Seal for its privacy practices.