Top 10 General Search Engine Summary Information
Google – Launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google.com is by far the most popular search engine globally. Originally named BackRub, Google’s network of sites roughly get 65% of all the United States searches and is considered by most people to be the world’s best search engine. As of Oct. 3 2010, Alexa reports Google.com as the most visited website worldwide. Submit your website to Google.Google powers: AOL Search (including CompuServe & Netscape), MySpace Search, Comcast Search and many other websites delivering search results.
Yahoo! – Started in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Yahoo.com was originally a directory of websites that later became it’s own crawler-based engine in 2002. As of late 2009, Yahoo! was the second biggest search engine on the web. However, in late August of 2010, Yahoo! search results started being powered by Bing. As of Oct. 3 2010, Alexa reports Yahoo.com as the 4th most visited website worldwide. Submit your website to Yahoo!.
Bing – Launched in 2009 by Microsoft, Bing.com is their latest search engine service. In late August, Bing officially started delivering Yahoo!’s search results. Former Microsoft search engines include Microsoft Live search and MSN Search. As of Oct. 3 2010, Alexa reports Bing.com as the 22nd most visited website worldwide. Submit your website to Bing.
Bing powers: Yahoo! Search, AltaVista, AlltheWeb, GoodSearch, Lycos, Go.com and many other websites delivering search results.
Ask – Formally known as Ask Jeeves or AskJeeves.com, Ask.com was founded in 1996 with the idea of allowing users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. Today Ask.com also includes support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions. In November of 2010 Ask.com announced it would no longer be crawling, indexing and ranking it’s own pages, and will probably outsourcing that to Google or Bing. Ask will continue to focus heavily on Q&A. There is no need to submit your site to Ask.
Teoma – Founded in 2000 by a professor and his colleagues at Rutgers University, Teoma.com was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2001 and was used to run Ask.com for several years. In May of 2010, Teoma was relaunched as an independent search engine with results similar to those on Ask.com, but slightly different for testing purposes. You don’t need to submit your web site to Teoma.
Duck Duck Go – Founded in September of 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo.com (DDG) prides itself on respecting user privacy. Duck Duck Go compiles its search result by crawling many sources, including DuckDuckBot (their web crawler), crowd-sourced sites, Yahoo! “BOSS”, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb and Bing. There is no need to submit your website to Duck Duck Go.
Entireweb – Originally launched in 2000, Entireweb.com launched their International search engine Entireweb 3.0 on April 7th, 2010 to compete with the current market leaders. Submit your website to Entireweb.
Entireweb powers: Exactseek, Slider and a few other web sites delivering search results.
blekko – Launched on November 1, 2010, blekko.com is quickly becoming known as the “slashtag” search engine. blekko’s slashtags allow you to quickly to create custom search engines and searches. blekko also offers some of the best free search engine optimization (SEO) and webmaster analysis tools. There is currently no submit form for blekko. Blekko will crawl and index your website after finding it through site that are linked to you. There is no need to submit your site to blekko.
Srub The Web -A search engine that has been around since 1996; ScrubTheWeb.com claims to rank all indexed pages individually, with all pages getting an equal chance of ranking high in the search results. Submit your website to Scrub The Web.
Gigablast – Launched in 2000, Gigablast.com aims to index up to 200 billion pages with the least hardware possible.It’s a the leading clean-energy search engine with 90% of its power comes from wind energy. Submit your website to Gigiablast.
Popular General International Search Engines:
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese) – youdao.com
- Sogou (Chinese) – sogou.com
- Yadao (Chinese) – youdao.com
- Yandex (Russian) – yandex.ru, yandex.com
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