Search Engine

A search engine is an online tool that allows users to search for content on the internet.

A search engine is a coordinated set of programs that searches for and identifies items in a database that
match specified criteria.

It continuously explores webpages and other types of content and stores information about them. When
a user enters a search query, it returns the most relevant results based on its internal ranking algorithms.

What Are the Top 5 Search Engines?

According to Statcounter's Search Engine Market Share Worldwide, the top five most popular search
engines are the following (as of March 2023):

1. Google (market share: 93.18%)

2. Bing (2.87%)
3. Yahoo (1.12%)
4. Yandex (1.02%)
5. DuckDuckGo (0.52%)

What are the Best Privacy-Oriented Search Engines?

Search engines that do not track user data and put user privacy as their top priority include:

• DuckDuckGo
• Brave Search
• Neeva
• You.com
• Startpage
• Swisscows

The market for privacy-oriented search engines is growing as more people become concerned about
their online privacy.

As a result, many existing search engines are adding privacy-focused features to their platforms.

Which Search Engines Use Their Own Crawlers?

Here is a list of search engines that crawl the internet and have their own index of websites:

• Google
• Bing
• Baidu
• Yandex
• DuckDuckGo (partially)
• Brave Search (partially)
• Swisscows (partially)
Many smaller search engines use either Google or Bing as their source of search results data. Some of
them (the last three in the list) use a hybrid approach—using both their own crawler and third-party
data.

Which Search Engines Use AI?

Search engines that either use AI assistants or claim to power their search results with AI are:

• Google (Bard AI)

• Bing (Bing AI)
• Brave Search (Brave AI)
• Neeva (Neeva AI)
• You (YouChat and other AI-related apps)

What Is the Oldest Search Engine?

Archie, founded in 1990, is considered the first internet search engine ever created. Among the oldest
search engines that still exist today, we can list WebCrawler, Yahoo, and Lycos—all created in 1994.

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