Friday 20 May 2016

Top 5 Best Alternatives of Google Search Engine

Search Engines are almost the most important part of our life. For every information you want to search for on the internet, all you have to do is to put your query in the search engine box and leave the rest it. Next moment, millions of results would pop up on the screen. Google, undoubtedly, leads the way as the best search engine present out there with a majority of people preferring it over others. Besides, there are quite a lot more different web search engines and ZenSeoTools which are probably good enough for our daily use. Some of them are listed below.

Bing


The Microsoft backed web search engine was introduced to us in 2009 by Steve Balmer, Microsoft CEO. It succeeded Microsoft’s previous search engines such as MSN Search, Live Search and Windows Live Search. The search engine is able to prosecute your queries in a variety of different services such as text, audio, video, images and map results. Bing is easily the second largest search engine prevalent in US, according to a survey in November 2015, with just 20% query volume. Google leads the chart with 64%.

Yahoo 


The Yahoo Search Engine is powered by Yahoo inc. and was launched in the year 1995. However, Yahoo was originally known for being an interface. It used to send queries generated using different search engines to us from their interface. The search engine was backed up by Inktomi in 2001 whilst Google helped it out till the year 2004. Later on, in 2009, Yahoo and Microsoft signed a deal between them for Bing interface to crop up whilst searching on Yahoo. As of now, Bing is the third most used search engine in US with 13% query requests.

Baidu


Baidu is the most used search engine from China. It was initially founded and launched on January 1, 2000. The Chinese backed search engine is ranked 4th in the overall Alexa Internet rankings. Baidu is able to provide its user with 58 different services including search options for images, text, web articles, audio, videos, maps and a unique Chinese dictionary. Besides, Baidu is the first in China to offer WAP and PDA based mobile services.

AOL 


Despite a market share of a paltry 0.59%, AOL is still one of the top most used web search engines available to us. AOL.com started out as Control Video Corporation back in the year 1983. Later, it was renamed and rebranded as America Online in the year 1991 before finally switching to AOL Inc in 2009. Verizon Communications have recently bought the search engine for a whopping $4.4 billion.

Ask.com 


The only web search engine which is in the format of a questionnaire is Ask.com. Earlier it was known as Ask Jeeves when it was founded in the year 1995. Ask.com involves a web based community where people would be responding to your queries and questions. If there are no answers to your questions, then the search engine will take help of many other third party applications to provide you with relevant results.

Conclusion


Google leads the web based search engine by a long way but many other new and old search engines are slowly closing the gap up top with Bing and Yahoo being the largest contributors to the cause. The list is created keeping things in mind such as the speed and accuracy of the results the search engine provides besides its market share and number of people who use them.