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Comparison of search engines
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Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a filter bubble).
Defunct or acquired search engines are not listed here.
Search crawlers
Current search engines with independent crawlers, as of December 2018.
| Search engine | Founder(s) | Company | Launched | Software distribution license | Pages indexed | Daily direct queries | Results count | Advertisements | Ahmia | AOL | Ask.com | Baidu | Brave Search | DuckDuckGo | Ecosia | Exalead | Fireball | Gigablast | Google Search | Kiddle | KidRex | KidzSearch | Lycos | Microsoft Bing | Million Short | Mojeek | Naver | Parsijoo | Petal | Qwant | Seznam.cz | Sogou | Startpage | Swisscows | WebCrawler | Yahoo! Search | Yandex Search | Youdao | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juha Nurmi | Juha Nurmi | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William von Meister | 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Garrett Gruener And David Warthen | IAC | 1996 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robin Li Yanhong | Baidu, Inc | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy | Brave Software, Inc. | 2021 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabriel Weinberg | Duck Duck Go, Inc. | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christian Kroll | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| François Bourdoncle and Patrice Bertin | Exalead | 2000 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oli Kai Paulus, Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen, Nurhan Yildirim, and Benhui Chen | Fireball Labs GmbH | 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Matt Wells | Independent | 2000 | 1 billion | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Larry Page, Sergey Brin & Scott Hassan | Alphabet Inc. | 1997 | hundreds of billions | 9.022 billion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dale Bock | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michael Loren Mauldin | 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft | 1998/2009 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marc Smith | Mojeek | 2004 | 5 billion | url=https://www.mojeek.com/support/ads/ | title=Ads on Mojeek}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kim Sang-Hun | Naver Corp. | 1999 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Huawei | 2020 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Éric Léandri | Qwant | 2013 | 20 billion | 10 million | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ivo Lukačovič | 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tencent | 2010 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Surfboard Holding BV | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Andreas Wiebe | Swisscows | 2014 | data-sort-value="0" | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brian Pinkerton | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jerry Yang & David Filo | Yahoo! | 1995 | data-sort-value="0" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkady Volozh | Yandex | 1997 | 2 billion | data-sort-value="0" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feng Zhou | 2007 |
Digital rights
| Search engine | Server's location(s) | Dedicated servers | Data center | Cloud computing | HTTPS available | Tor gateway available | Proxy gateway search links available | Ahmia | AOL | Ask.com | Baidu | Blackle | Brave Search | DuckDuckGo | Ecosia | Exalead | Fireball | Gigablast | Google Search | Kiddle | KidRex | KidzSearch | Lycos | Microsoft Bing | Mojeek | Naver | Parsijoo | Petal | Qwant | Seznam.cz | Sogou | Startpage | Swisscows | WebCrawler | Yahoo! Search | Yandex Search | Youdao |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | Verizon Internet Services | Amazon EC2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | Google data centers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA / China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UK | Custodian Data Centres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russia |
Tracking and surveillance
| Search engine | HTTP tracking cookies | Personalized results | IP address tracking | Information sharing | Warrantless wiretapping of unencrypted backend traffic | Ahmia | AOL | Ask.com | Baidu | Blackle | Brave Search | url=https://duckduckgo.com/privacy | title=DuckDuckGo Privacy | date=2012-04-11 | access-date=2017-04-29}} | Ecosia | Exalead | Fireball | Gigablast | Google Search | Kiddle | KidRex | KidzSearch | Lycos | Microsoft Bing | Mojeek | Naver | Parsijoo | Petal | Qwant | Seznam.cz | Sogou | Swisscows | WebCrawler | Yahoo! Search | Yandex Search | Youdao | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url=https://info.ecosia.org/privacy | title=Learn more about our privacy policy and the data that we do collect | access-date=July 18, 2019}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| url=http://www.gigablast.com/privacy.html | title=Gigablast - The Private Search Engine | date=2013 | access-date=2017-04-29 | archive-date=2018-10-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015032013/http://www.gigablast.com/privacy.html | url-status=dead }} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author1=Johnson, Kevin | author2=Martin, Scott | author3=O'Donnell, Jayne | author4=Winter, Michael | title=Reports: NSA Siphons Data from 9 Major Net Firms | url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/06/06/nsa-surveillance-internet-companies/2398345/ | access-date=June 6, 2013 | work=USA Today | date=June 15, 2013}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| url=http://company.yandex.ru/technologies/personalised_search/index.xml | title=Компания Яндекс — Персональный поиск | access-date=May 22, 2013}} |
References
References
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- "about".
- (23 April 2017). "Google Annual Search Statistics". Statistic Brain.
- "Mojeek Surpasses 5 Billion Pages".
- "Ads on Mojeek".
- Qwant. (2018-11-20). "Web indexation: where does Qwant's independence stand?".
- Danny Sullivan. (22 January 2014). "Yahoo Search Goes Secure". [[Search Engine Land]].
- "Yandex.Direct switches to HTTPS". Yandex.
- (2012-04-11). "DuckDuckGo Privacy".
- Weinberg, Gabriel. (2010-08-10). "DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave".
- "Learn more about our privacy policy and the data that we do collect".
- (2013). "Gigablast - The Private Search Engine".
- "Turn off search history personalization".
- Gallagher, Sean. (2013-11-06). "Googlers say "F*** you" to NSA, company encrypts internal network". Ars Technica.
- (June 15, 2013). "Reports: NSA Siphons Data from 9 Major Net Firms". [[USA Today]].
- Danny Yadron. (2013-12-05). "Microsoft Compares NSA to 'Advanced Persistent Threat' - Digits - WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com.
- Tom Warren. (2013-12-05). "Microsoft labels US government a 'persistent threat' in plan to cut off NSA spying". The Verge.
- Brandom, Russell. (2013-11-18). "Yahoo plans to encrypt all internal data by early 2014 to keep the NSA out". The Verge.
- "Компания Яндекс — Персональный поиск".
- Holwerda, Thom. (June 21, 2011). "DuckDuckGo: The Privacy-centric Alternative to Google". [[OSNews]].
- (31 December 2011). "SEC Filing 2011". Yandex N.V..
- (15 November 2011). "Privacy Policy – Legal Documents". LLC Yandex.
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