November 22, 2023

Top 10 Most Popular Search Engines

By Ovais Mirza

Search engines are supposed to help you find anything on the WWW (World Wide Web). You must be curious to know about what are the 10 best and most popular search engines in the World. If your answer is Yes, Then This Article is for you to help you find the top 10 Most Popular search engines.

1. Google

Google If you are webmaster, Blogger or a Web Surfer. Google search engine is equally important for everyone. If we look on traffic states of any site almost 78% of the search engine traffic Came from Google. Google Serves millions of search queries per day that is why Google is the Most Popular search engine and Also Sustain its No. 1 Spot in Popular Search Engine Rankings.

According to EightFold Logic report on click-through traffic in the US showed:

  • Google sends 78.43% of traffic.
  • Yahoo! sends 9.73% of traffic.
  • Bing sends 7.86% of traffic.

 2. Bing

Despite the fact That Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. Bing is Microsoft’s attempt to Compete Google in the area of search. But Still They didn’t Get That much results for which they expected they will achieve. They are now on 2nd Spot in search engine category.

 3. Yahoo

Since October 2011 Yahoo search is powered by Bing. Before Some years yahoo was on 2nd spot in search engine rankings. But now They Fell Down One Spot and Competing for His 3rd Spot in search engine rankings. They Also provide one of the best email services for their users.

4. Ask

Previously Known as Ask Jeeves, Ask depends on crawler-based technology to provide good results to its users. These results generates from the Teoma search algorithm, now known as ExpertRank. ASK is based on a question/answer format where most questions is answered by its users(responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything). On march 2005 IAC (owner of Ticketmaster.com buys Ask jeeves for $ 1.85 billion changes name to ask.com.

5. Lycos

Lycos is owned by Terra Lycos. Lycos is one of the oldest search engines and web portal launched in 1994. Lycos also includes a network of emails, web hosting, social networking websites, & entertainment websites. On August 2, 2004, Terra officially declared that it was selling Lycos to Seoul, South Korea-based Daum Communications Corporation for $95.4 million in cash.

6. Blekko

Blekko was developed by ex-Googlers and they present themselves as the “spam free search engine”. Blekko is relatively a newly launched internet search engine with lots of new and advanced user-friendly features to give Best Search engine Results. The company’s site, launched to the public on November 1, 2010, Blekko uses slashtags to give results for common searches also Blekko offers a downloadable search bar.

7. DuckDuckGo

Founded in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg, Duck Duck Go is an Web Search Engine written in Perl and runs on nginx . Duck Duck go is User Friendly and provide all the facilities for its users for best results. Due to its Popularity Duck Duck Go maintains the 7th place in the list of world’s top 10 best search engines.

8. WebCrawler

Webcrawler was launched in 1994. WebCrawler is a Meta search engine that Gives the Top Results from the top search Engines like Google and Yahoo. WebCrawler was the first crawler that indexed entire pages. Also it is too popular for its use during daytime. In 1995 AOL buys web crawler and in 1997 Excite bought out web crawler.

9. AltaVista

Launced in 1994 AltaVista was an early web search engine. It was once one of the most popular search engines, but it lost its way with the advent of Google and was purchased in 2003 by Yahoo, Also It was the First Search engine which allows natural language queries and advanced searching techniques.

10. Info

Info.com is again MetaSearch Engine which give results from Popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.  Having Results From all popular search engines info.com is at 10th place in search engine rankings.

List of Search Engines for Search Engine Submissions

S.No.

General – Search Engines

Page Rank (pr)Alexa Rank
1https://www.google.com/ 91
2https://www.yahoo.com/ 84
3http://www.baidu.com/ 95
4http://www.bing.com/ 823
5http://soso.com/ 741
6http://www.sogou.com/ 8121
7https://duckduckgo.com/ 7611
8http://www.yandex.com/ 71701
9http://blekko.com/ 74711
10http://www.gigablast.com/ 313834

Meta – Search Engines

Page Rank (pr)Alexa Rank
1http://www.kayak.com/ 6630
2http://www.webcrawler.com/ 51134
3http://info.com/ 62030
4http://www.dogpile.com/ 73611
5https://ixquick.com/ 76567
6http://www.excite.com/ 87767
7http://www.zoo.com/ 47944
8http://mamma.com/ 721125
9http://www.hotbot.com/ 868917
10http://yippy.com/ 697110
11http://deeperweb.com/ 4116238

Job – Search Engines

Page Rank (pr)Alexa Rank
1http://www.craigslist.org/ 734
2http://www.indeed.com/ 7142
3http://www.naukri.com/ 6443
4http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm 7660
5http://www.monster.com/ 8666
6http://careerbuilder.com/ 6918
7http://in.incruit.com/ 42389
8http://www.dice.com/ 83142
9http://www.jobstreet.com/ 63354
10http://www.adzuna.co.uk/ 525511
11http://www.eluta.ca/ 848675
12http://www.linkup.com/ 653230

Real Estate – Search Engines

Page Rank (pr)Alexa Rank
1http://www.zillow.com/ 6193
2http://www.trulia.com/ 6445
3http://www.realtor.com/ 6651
4http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent.html 5768
5http://www.zoopla.co.uk/ 51022
6http://www.redfin.com/
61411
7http://hotpads.com/
56321

Question Answer – Search Engines

Page Rank (pr)Alexa Rank
1https://answers.yahoo.com/ 84
2http://stackoverflow.com/ 752
3http://stackexchange.com/ 6119
4http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page 6142
5http://www.answers.com/ 7172
6http://www.ehow.com/ 6341
7https://www.quora.com/ 7411
8https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/ 421010