SEARCH

ENGINES
List of Top 10 Most Popular
Search Engines In the World
(Updated 2019)
 1. Google
• founded by Google LLC (Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, 1997)
• most search engine (5.4 billion searches
each day)
• to hunt for text in publicly accessible
documents offered by web servers,
as opposed to other data,
such as images or data
contained in databases.
 1. Google
• PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by
Google Search to rank web pages in their
search engine results.
 2. Bing
• a web search engine owned and
operated by Microsoft.
• a variety of search services, including web,
video, image and map search products.
• developed using ASP.NET.
• MSN Search, Windows
Live Search and later Live Search.
 2. Bing
• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmeron May 28,
2009
• the moment of discovery and decision
making; bingo
 3. Yahoo
• an American web services provider
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California,
and owned by Verizon Media.
• was founded by Jerry Yang and David
Filo in January 1994 and was
incorporated on March 2, 1995.
• one of the pioneers of the early Internet
era in the 1990s
• 2017 Verizon Communications acquired
most of Yahoo's Internet business for
$4.48 billion
 3. Yahoo
• Altaba Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-
end management investment company
based in New York City that was formed
from the remains of Yahoo! Inc. after
Verizon acquired Yahoo's Internet
business
 4. Ask.com
• originally known as Ask Jeeves (being the
name of a "gentleman's personal
gentleman", or valet, fetching answers to
any question asked. )
• founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and
David Warthen in Berkeley, California.
• From the mid-2000s,
The "Jeeves" name was dropped
and focused on the search engine,
with its own algorithm
 4. Ask.com
• facing insurmountable competition from
more popular search engines like Google,
the company outsourced its web search
technology and returned to its roots as a
question and answer site. (2010)
 5. AOL.com
• stylized as Aol., formerly a company
known as AOL Inc. and originally known
as America Online
• originally provided a dial-up service to
millions of Americans, as well as
providing a web portal, e-mail, instant
messaging and later a web
browser following its purchase of
Netscape
 5. AOL.com
• began in 1983, as a short-lived venture
called Control Video Corporation (or CVC),
founded by William von Meister
• On June 23, 2015, AOL was acquired by
Verizon Communications for $4.4
billion
 6. Baidu
 was founded in 2000 by Robin Li and it is
the most popular search engine in China.
Owns over 75% of the market share in
China's search engine market
 Baidu is serving billion of search queries
per month.
 It is currently ranked at
position 4, in the
Alexa Rankings.
 6. Baidu
 Baidu Offered Ad Space Before Google
 Originally, the company offered “search
services to other Chinese portals.”
However, the company wasn’t profitable,
so it relaunched as an independent site in
2001.  
 7. WolframAlpha
 Stephen Wolfram
They market it as a Computational
Knowledge Engine which can give you facts
and data for a number of topics.
 sometimes referred to as an "answer
engine“
long-term goal is to make all systematic
knowledge immediately
computable and accessible
to everyone.
 7. WolframAlpha
 released on May 18, 2009
 8. DuckDuckGo
• It promises not to use cookies to follow
users and says it doesn't collect any personal
information on those who use it. Even your IP
address is hidden.
• "We protect your search history, even from
us," founder Gabriel Weinberg
•is serving more than
30 million searches
per day. (December 2018)
 8. DuckDuckGo
• Founded on 2008
9. Internet Archive
 10. Yandex.ru
• operates the largest search engine in Russia
with about 65% market share in that
country.
• goal is to help consumers and businesses
better navigate the online and offline world.
• developed market-leading on-demand
transportation services, navigation
products, and other mobile applications
for millions of consumers
across the globe
 10. Yandex.ru
• The company started way back in 1990
when Arkady Yolozh and Arkady
Borkovsky teamed up to create the
company Arkadia
The Best Green Search
Engines
 How do Green Search Engines
Work?
• Green Search Engines work in partnership
with other major search engines, such as
Google. Use these sites only as you would use
a real search engine. Patterns that indicate
click-to-donate behavior can cause the
green search engine to lose the partnership
of the search
engine driver.
 Ecosearch 
• EcoSearch.org donates 100% of profits
to charities
• Users can request additional
environmental charities be added.
• EcoSearch.org is powered
by Google.
 Good Search
• donates 50% of revenue to charities
chosen by the users of the site
• GoodSearch searches via Yahoo!
 GoodTree
• 12.5% of revenue to charities chosen by the
users of the site.
• publishes independent audits and shows the
disbursements made, by charity.
• GoodTree is a meta-search engine, searching
over Yahoo,
Google, Ask Jeeves,
and MSN.
Ecosia is the search engine that
plants trees
1. Why does Ecosia plant trees?
• For the planet
• For communities
• For animals
 2. Where does Ecosia plant
trees?
• All over the world
• In biodiversity hotspots
• Where people want them
 10 Competitors to Google
Search but failed
1. Cuil 9. Excite
2. AltaVista 10. HotBot
3. Infoseek
4. AlltheWeb
5. Direct Hit Technologies
6. KartOO
7. Wikia Search
8. AOL Search