Popular search engines in the world. What search engines are there?

What is this

DuckDuckGo is a fairly well-known open source search engine. source code. Servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.

The better

DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about the user, does not store logs (no search history), use cookies as limited as possible.

DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo

Why do you need this

All major search engines are trying to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the “filter bubble”: the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system deems as such.

Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Internet, and eliminates thematic Google advertising and Yandex, based on your requests. With DuckDuckGo it is easy to search for information in foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the query is entered in another language.

What is this

not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized .

not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the clear hint from Google (just look at the start page).

The better

Looking there where to Google, Yandex and other search engines are closed in principle.

Why do you need this

The Tor network contains many resources that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And their number will grow as government control over the content of the Internet tightens. Tor is a kind of network within the Internet with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, trading platforms, blogs, libraries, and so on.

3. YaCy

What is this

YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main one is installed software module, scans the Internet independently, that is, it is an analogue of a search robot. The results obtained are collected into a common database that is used by all YaCy participants.

The better

It’s difficult to say whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone's preferences. The autonomy of each node eliminates censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.

Why do you need this

If you are a supporter of open source software and a free Internet, not subject to the influence of government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. You can also use it to organize a search within a corporate or other autonomous network. And even though YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.

4. Pipl

What is this

Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.

The better

The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than “regular” search engines. In particular, priority is given to social network profiles, comments, member lists, and various databases that publish information about people, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by assessments from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.

Why do you need this

If you need to find information about a person living in the USA, then Pipl will be much more more effective than Google. The databases of Russian courts are apparently inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with Russian citizens.

What is this

FindSounds is another specialized search engine. Searches various sounds in open sources: house, nature, cars, people, and so on. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can use to search.

The better

The output contains only sounds and nothing extra. In the settings you can set the desired format and sound quality. All sounds found are available for download. There is a search by pattern.

Why do you need this

If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a suckling woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And we chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. In English the spectrum is even wider.

Seriously though, specialized service assumes a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy for you too?

What is this

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it provides a ready-made answer to the user's request. For example, if you enter “compare the populations of New York and San Francisco” into the search form in English, Wolfram|Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with the comparison.

The better

This service is better than others for finding facts and calculating data. Wolfram|Alpha collects and organizes knowledge available on the Web from a variety of fields, including science, culture and entertainment. If this database contains a ready-made answer to a search query, the system displays it; if not, it calculates and displays the result. In this case, the user sees only nothing superfluous.

Why do you need this

If you are a student, analyst, journalist, or researcher, for example, you can use Wolfram|Alpha to find and calculate data related to your work. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly developing and becoming smarter.

What is this

The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of results from search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular systems.

The better

First, Dogpile displays fewer ads. Secondly, the service uses a special algorithm to find and show best results from different search engines. According to the Dogpile developers, their systems generate the most complete search results on the entire Internet.

Why do you need this

If you can't find information on Google or another standard search engine, look for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.

What is this

BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, question and answer services and other communities.

The better

The service allows you to narrow your search field to social platforms. Thanks to special filters, you can quickly find posts and comments that match your criteria: language, publication date and site name.

Why do you need this

BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media specialists who are interested in the opinion of the masses on certain issues.

In conclusion

The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergei Petrenko, about the long-term prospects of such projects.

Sergey Petrenko

Former general manager"Yandex.Ukraine".

As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore without clear commercial prospects or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.

If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but popular niche, which, perhaps, has not yet grown enough to be noticeable on the radars of Google or Yandex, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking, which is not yet applicable in regular search.

For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, results from there are needed by at least a percentage of Google’s audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that for a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries, results given without taking into account factors depending on the user seem more relevant, then Yandex or Google will begin to produce such results.

“Be better” in the context of this article does not mean “be better at everything.” Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Yandex (even far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the giants of the search industry cannot offer. Surely you also know similar projects. Share with us - let's discuss.

A search engine is a database of specific information on the Internet. Many users believe that as soon as they enter a query into a search engine, the entire Internet immediately begins to be scanned, but this is not at all true. The Internet is scanned constantly, by many programs, data about sites is entered into a database, where, according to certain criteria, all sites and all their pages are distributed into various types of lists and databases. That is, this is a kind of file cabinet of data, and the search takes place not on the Internet, but on this file cabinet.

Google is the most popular search engine in the world.

In addition to the search engine, Google offers many additional services, programs and hardware, including an email service, Google Chrome browser, the largest YouTube video library and many other projects. Google is confidently buying up many projects that bring large profits. Most of the services are not aimed at the direct user, but at making money on the Internet and are integrated with a focus on the interests of European and American users.

Mail is a search engine that is popular mainly because of its email service.

There are many additional services, the key of which is Mail, on at the moment Mail company owns the social network Odnoklassniki, own network“My World”, Money-mail service, many online games, three almost identical browsers with different names. All applications and services contain a lot of advertising content. The social network VKonatkte blocks direct transitions to Mail services, aggravating a large number viruses.

Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a search reference system.

The non-profit search engine, which operates on private donations, therefore does not fill its pages with advertising. A multilingual project whose goal is to create a complete reference encyclopedia in all languages of the world. It has no specific authors and is completed and managed by volunteers from all over the world. Each user can both write and edit an article.

Official page- www.wikipedia.org.

Youtube is the largest library of video files.

Video hosting with elements social network, where each user can add a video. Since their acquisition by Google Ink, separate registration for YouTube is not required, just register in the Google email service.

Official page - youtube.com.

Yahoo! is the second most important search engine in the world.

Available additional services, the most famous of which is Yahoo mail. As part of improving the quality of the search engine, Yahoo transfers data about users and their queries to Microsoft. From this data, an idea of the interests of users is formed, and a market for advertising content is formed. The Yahoo search engine, like , is engaged in the acquisition of other companies, for example, Yahoo owns the Altavista search service and website e-commerce Alibaba.

Official page - www.yahoo.com.

WDL is a digital library.

The library collects books of cultural value in digital form. The main goal is to increase the level of cultural content of the Internet. Access to the library is free.

Official page - www.wdl.org/ru/.

Bing is a search engine from Microsoft.

Official page - www.baidu.com.

Search engines Russia

Rambler is a “pro-American” search engine.

Initially it was created as an Internet media portal. Like many other search engines, it has search services for images, video files, maps, weather forecasts, news section and much more. Publishers also offer a free browser, Rambler-Nichrome.

Official page - www.rambler.ru.

Nigma is an intelligent search engine.

A more convenient search engine due to the presence of many filters and settings. The interface allows you to include or exclude suggested similar values in the search to obtain better results. Also, when receiving a search result, it allows you to use information from other major search engines.

Official page - www.nigma.ru.

Aport - online product catalog.

In the past, a search engine, but after development and innovation were stopped, it quickly lost ground and . IN present moment Aport is trading platform, where the products of more than 1,500 companies are presented.

Official page - www.aport.ru.

Sputnik is a national search engine and Internet portal.

Created by Rostelecom. Currently in testing stage.

Official page - www.sputnik.ru.

Metabot is a growing search engine.

Metabot's tasks are to create a search engine for all other search engines, creating results positions taking into account data from the entire list of search engines. That is, it is a search engine for search engines.

Official page - www.metabot.ru.

The search engine has been suspended.

Official page - www.turtle.ru.

KM is a multiportal.

Initially, the site was a multiportal with the subsequent introduction of a search engine. The search can be carried out both within the site and across all monitored RuNet sites.

Official page - www.km.ru.

Gogo - does not work, redirects to a search engine.

Official page - www.gogo.ru.

The Russian multiportal, not very popular, requires improvement. The search engine includes news, television, games, and a map.

Official page - www.zoneru.org.

The search engine does not work, the developers suggest using the search engine.

They have long become an integral part of the Russian Internet. Search engines are now huge and complex mechanisms that represent not only an information search tool, but also tempting areas for business.

Most search engine users have never thought (or thought about it, but did not find an answer) about the principle of operation of search engines, the scheme for processing user requests, what these systems consist of and how they function...

This master class is designed to answer the question of how search engines work. However, you will not find here factors that influence the ranking of documents. And even more so, you shouldn’t count on detailed explanation Yandex algorithm. He, according to Ilya Segalovich, the director of technology and development of the Yandex search engine, can only be recognized “under torture” by Ilya Segalovich himself...

2. Concept and functions of a search engine

A search system is a software and hardware complex designed to search the Internet and respond to a user request, specified in the form of a text phrase (search query), by producing a list of links to sources of information, in order of relevance (in accordance with the request). The largest international search engines: "Google", Yahoo , MSN . On the Russian Internet these are Yandex, Rambler, Aport.

Let's take a closer look at the concept of a search query using the Yandex search engine as an example. The search query should be formulated by the user in accordance with what he wants to find, as briefly and simply as possible. Let's say we want to find information in Yandex on how to choose a car. To do this, open home page“Yandex”, and enter the text of the search query “how to choose a car”. Next, our task comes down to opening the links provided at our request to sources of information on the Internet. However, it is quite possible that we will not find the information we need. If this happens, then either you need to rephrase your request, or the search engine database really does not have any relevant information on our request (this can happen when asking very “narrow” queries, such as, for example, “how to choose a car in Arkhangelsk”)

The primary goal of any search engine is to deliver to people exactly the information they are looking for. And teach users to make “correct” requests to the system, i.e. queries that comply with the operating principles of search engines are impossible. Therefore, developers create algorithms and operating principles for search engines that would allow users to find the information they are looking for.

This means the search engine must “think” the same way the user thinks when searching for information. When a user makes a request to a search engine, he wants to find what he needs as quickly and easily as possible. Receiving the result, he evaluates the performance of the system, guided by several basic parameters. Did he find what he was looking for? If he didn’t find it, how many times did he have to rephrase the query to find what he was looking for? How much relevant information could he find? How quickly did the search engine process the request? How convenient were the search results presented? Was the result you were looking for the first or the hundredth? How many unnecessary garbage was found on par with useful information? Will the necessary information be found when accessing a search engine, say, in a week, or in a month?

In order to satisfy all these questions with answers, search engine developers are constantly improving search algorithms and principles, adding new functions and capabilities, and trying in every possible way to speed up the operation of the system.

3. Main characteristics of the search engine

Let us describe the main characteristics of search engines:

Completeness
Completeness is one of the main characteristics of a search system, which is the ratio of the number of documents found upon request to the total number of documents on the Internet that satisfy this request. For example, if there are 100 pages on the Internet containing the phrase “how to choose a car,” and only 60 of them were found for the corresponding query, then the completeness of the search will be 0.6. Obviously, what more complete search, the less likely it is that the user will not find the document he needs, provided that it exists on the Internet at all.
Accuracy
Accuracy is another main characteristic of a search engine, which is determined by the degree to which the found documents match the user's query. For example, if the query “how to choose a car” contains 100 documents, 50 of them contain the phrase “how to choose a car”, and the rest simply contain these words (“how to choose the right radio and install it in a car”), then the search accuracy is considered equal to 50/100 (=0.5). The more accurate the search, the faster the user will find the documents he needs, the less various kinds of “garbage” will be found among them, the less often the found documents will not correspond to the request.
Relevance
Relevance is an equally important component of search, which is characterized by the time that passes from the moment documents are published on the Internet until they are entered into the search engine index database. For example, the day after interesting news appears, large number users turned to search engines with relevant queries. Objectively, less than a day has passed since the publication of news information on this topic, but the main documents have already been indexed and available for search, thanks to the existence of the so-called “fast database” of large search engines, which is updated several times a day.
Search speed
Search speed is closely related to its load resistance. For example, according to Rambler Internet Holding LLC, today during business hours the Rambler search engine receives about 60 requests per second. Such workload requires reducing the processing time of an individual request. Here the interests of the user and the search engine coincide: the visitor wants to get results as quickly as possible, and the search engine must process the request as quickly as possible, so as not to slow down the calculation of subsequent queries.
Visibility

4. Brief history search engine development

In the initial period of Internet development, the number of its users was small, and the volume available information relatively small. For the most part, only research staff had access to the Internet. At this time, the task of searching for information on the Internet was not as urgent as it is now.

One of the first ways to organize access to information resources The network began to create open directories of sites, links to resources in which were grouped according to topic. The first such project was the Yahoo.com website, which opened in the spring of 1994. After the number of sites in the directory increased significantly, a search feature was added necessary information according to the catalogue. In the full sense, it was not yet a search engine, since the search area was limited only to the resources present in the catalog, and not to all Internet resources.

Link directories were widely used in the past, but have almost completely lost their popularity nowadays. Since even modern catalogs, huge in volume, contain information only about a negligible part of the Internet. The largest directory of the DMOZ network (also called the Open Directory Project) contains information about 5 million resources, while the search database Google systems consists of more than 8 billion documents.

In 1995, search engines Lycos and AltaVista appeared. The latter has been a leader in the field of information search on the Internet for many years.

In 1997, Sergey Brin and Larry Page created the Google search engine as part of a research project at Stanford University. Google is currently the most popular search engine in the world!

In September 1997, the search engine was officially announced Yandex system, which is the most popular on the Russian-language Internet.

Currently, there are three main search engines (international) - Google, Yahoo and, having own bases and search algorithms. Most other search engines (of which there are a large number) use in one form or another the results of the three listed. For example, AOL search (search.aol.com) uses the Google database, while AltaVista, Lycos and AllTheWeb use the Yahoo database.

5. Composition and principles of operation of the search system

In Russia, the main search engine is Yandex, followed by Rambler.ru, Google.ru, Aport.ru, Mail.ru. Moreover, at the moment, Mail.ru uses the Yandex search engine and database.

Almost all major search engines have their own structure, different from others. However, it is possible to identify the main components common to all search engines. Differences in structure can only be in the form of implementation of the mechanisms of interaction of these components.

Indexing module

The indexing module consists of three support programs(robots):

Spider is a program designed to download web pages. The spider downloads the page and retrieves all internal links from that page. The html code of each page is downloaded. Robots use to download pages HTTP protocols. The spider works as follows. The robot sends the request “get/path/document” and some other HTTP request commands to the server. In response, the robot receives a text stream containing service information and the document itself.

Page URL
date the page was downloaded
Server response http header
page body (html code)

Crawler (“traveling” spider) is a program that automatically follows all the links found on the page. Selects all links present on the page. Its job is to determine where the spider should go next, based on links or based on a predetermined list of addresses. Crawler, following the links found, searches for new documents that are still unknown to the search engine.

Indexer (robot indexer) is a program that analyzes web pages downloaded by spiders. The indexer parses the page into its component parts and analyzes them using its own lexical and morphological algorithms. Various page elements are analyzed, such as text, headings, links, structural and style features, special service HTML tags, etc.

Thus, the indexing module allows you to crawl a given set of resources using links, download encountered pages, extract links to new pages from received documents, and produce full analysis these documents.

Database

A database, or search engine index, is a data storage system, an information array in which specially converted parameters of all documents downloaded and processed by the indexing module are stored.

Search server

The search server is the most important element the entire system, since the quality and speed of search directly depends on the algorithms that underlie its functioning.

The search server works as follows:

The request received from the user is subjected to morphological analysis. The information environment of each document contained in the database is generated (which will subsequently be displayed in the form, that is, corresponding to the request text information on the search results page).
The received data is passed as input parameters to a special ranking module. Data is processed for all documents, as a result of which each document has its own rating that characterizes the relevance of the query entered by the user and the various components of this document stored in the search engine index.
Depending on the user’s choice, this rating can be adjusted by additional conditions (for example, the so-called “advanced search”).
Next, a snippet is generated, that is, for each document found, the title, a short abstract that best matches the query, and a link to the document itself are extracted from the document table, and the words found are highlighted.
The resulting search results are transmitted to the user in the form of a SERP (Search Engine Result Page) – a search results page.

As you can see, all these components are closely related to each other and work in interaction, forming a clear, rather complex mechanism for the operation of the search system, which requires huge amounts of resources.

6. Conclusion

Now let's summarize all of the above.

The primary goal of any search engine is to deliver to people exactly the information they are looking for.
Main characteristics of search engines:
1. Completeness
2. Accuracy
3. Relevance
4. Search speed
5. Visibility
The first full-fledged search engine was the WebCrawler project, published in 1994.
The search system includes the following components:
1. Indexing module
2. Database
3. Search server

We hope that our master class will allow you to become more familiar with the concept of a search engine and better understand the main functions, characteristics and operating principles of search engines.

Most popular web The search engine is the service of our time. Everything is understandable here, because the days when representatives of the first Internet users could observe new products on the Internet are long gone.

So much information appears and accumulates that it has become very difficult for a person to find exactly what he needs. Imagine what it would be like to search on the Internet if the average user had to look for information from God knows where. Just don’t understand where, because you won’t find much information with a manual search.

Search engine, what is it?

It’s good if the user already knows sites that may have the necessary information, but what to do otherwise? In order to make life easier for a person in finding the necessary information on the Internet, search engines or simply search engines were invented. The search engine performs one very important function, without which the Internet would not be the same as we are used to seeing it - this is searching for information on the Internet.

Search engine- this is a special web site or in other words a site that provides users, upon their requests, with hyperlinks to pages of sites that respond to a given search query.

To be a little more precise, it is a search for information on the Internet, carried out thanks to a software and hardware functional set and a web interface for interacting with users.

For human interaction with the search engine, a web interface was created, that is, a visible and understandable shell. This approach of search engine developers makes searching easier for many people. As a rule, it is on the Internet that searches are carried out using search engines, but there are also search systems for FTP servers, certain types of goods in world wide web, or news information or other search directions.

The search can be carried out not only by the text content of sites, but also by other types of information that a person can search for: images, videos, sound files etc.

How does a search engine search?

Searching the Internet itself, just like browsing websites, is possible using an Internet browser. Only after the user has specified his query in the search bar, the search itself is carried out directly.

Any search engine contains software part, on which the entire search mechanism is based, it is called a search engine - it is a software package that provides the ability to search for information. After contacting a search engine, a person generates a search query and enters it into the search bar, the search engine generates a page with a list of search results, the most relevant ones, in the opinion of the search engine, are located higher.

Search relevance - searching for the most relevant materials to the user's request and placing hyperlinks on them on the search results page with more accurate results above others. The distribution of results itself is called site ranking.

So how does a search engine prepare its materials for publication and how does the search engine itself search for information? The collection of information on the network is facilitated by a unique robot or bot for each search engine, which also has a number of other synonyms such as crawler or spider, and the work of the search system itself can be divided into three stages:

The first stage of a search engine’s operation includes scanning sites in global network and collecting on your own own servers copies of web pages. This creates a huge amount of information that has not yet been processed and is not suitable for search results.

The second stage of the search engine’s work comes down to putting in order the information received earlier, in the first stage, from sites. The sorting is carried out in such a way that in the least amount of time will be conducive to the very high-quality search that users actually expect from a search engine. The stage is called indexing, which means that the pages are already prepared for issuance, and the current database will be considered an index.

It is precisely the third stage that determines the search results, after receiving a request from its client, based on the keywords or near keywords specified in the request. This facilitates the selection of the most relevant information to the request and its subsequent delivery. Since there is a lot of information, the search engine performs ranking in accordance with its algorithms.
The best search engine is considered to be the one that can provide the material that most correctly responds to the user’s request. But here, too, there may be results that were influenced by people interested in promoting their site; such sites, although not always, often appear in search results, but not for long.

Although world leaders have already been identified in many regions, search engines continue to develop their high-quality search. The better the search they can provide, the more people will use it.

How to use the search engine?

What is a search engine and how it works is already clear, but how to use it correctly? Most sites always have a search bar, and next to it there is a Find or Search button. A query is entered into the search line, after which you need to press the search button or, as is more often the case, press the Enter key on the keyboard and in a matter of seconds you receive the result of the query in the form of a list.

But it’s not always possible to get the correct answer to a search query the first time. To ensure that the search for what you want does not become painful, you must correctly compose your search query and follow the recommendations described below.

We compose the search query correctly

The following will provide tips for using the search engine. Following some tricks and rules when searching for information in a search engine will give you the opportunity to get desired result much faster. Follow these guidelines:

Correct spelling of words ensures the maximum number of matches with the search term information object(Although modern search engines have already learned to correct spelling errors, this advice should not be neglected).
By using synonyms in your query, you can cover a wider search range.
Sometimes changing a word in the query text can bring better results; reformat the query.
Bring specificity to your query, use exact occurrences of phrases that should define the main essence of the search.
Experiment with keywords. Usage keywords and phrases can help determine the main point, and the search engine will return a more relevant result.

So what a search engine is is nothing more than an opportunity to find information of interest and usually use it completely free of charge, learn something, understand something, or draw the right conclusion for yourself. Many people can no longer imagine their life without voice search, in which you don’t have to type text, you just need to say your request, and the input device here is a microphone. All this indicates the constant development of search technologies on the Internet and the need for them.

As expected, Google took first place in the world rankings. His share is more than 70% search queries from residents from all over the world. Moreover, a third of all google.com traffic comes from US citizens. In addition, Google is the most visited website in the world. The average daily duration of use of the Google search engine is 9 minutes.

The advantage of the Google search engine is the absence unnecessary elements on the page. Just a search bar and the company logo. Chip are animated pictures and browser games dedicated to popular and local holidays.

2. Bing

Bing - search engine from Microsoft, dating back to 2009. From that moment on, it became a mandatory attribute of smartphones running Windows OS. Bing also features minimalism - in addition to the header with a list of all Microsoft products, on the page there is only search string and the name of the system. Bing is most popular in the USA (31%), China (18%) and Germany (6%).

3. Yahoo!

Third place went to one of the oldest search engines - Yahoo. The bulk of users also live in the USA (24%). It seems that the rest of the world is deliberately avoiding the help of search robots... The search engine is also popular in India, Indonesia, Taiwan and the UK. In addition to the search bar, on the Yahoo! offers a weather forecast in your region, as well as global trends in the form of a news feed.

4. Baidu

A Chinese search engine that has gained notoriety in Russia. Due to aggressive policies and lack of translation into Russian or English languages, extensions of this search engine are perceived as viruses. It is very difficult to completely remove them and get rid of pop-up windows with hieroglyphs. However, this site is fourth in the world by attendance. 92% of its audience are Chinese citizens.

5. AOL

AOL is an American search engine whose name stands for America Online. Its popularity is significantly lower than that of previous systems. Its heyday was in the 90s and 00s. Almost 70% of AOL's audience are residents of the United States.

6.Ask.com

This search engine, dating back to 1995, has quite unusual interface. She perceives all requests as questions and offers answer options in accordance with search results. This is somewhat reminiscent of the Answers.Mail service. However, it is not amateur answers that are included in the search results, but full-fledged articles. Over the past year, the site has lost about 50 positions in the world ranking of the most popular Internet resources and today ranks only 104th.

7.Excite

This search engine is unremarkable and similar to a lot of other sites. It offers users a lot of services (such as News, Mail, Weather, Travel, etc.) The site's interface also evokes memories of the web of the 90s and, one might assume, has changed little since then.

8.DuckDuckGo

The developers immediately warn that this search engine does not track your actions online. Nowadays, this is a significant argument when choosing a search engine. The site design is made in a modern manner, uses bright colors and funny pictures. Unlike other search engines, the “duck search engine” has been translated into Russian. Over the past year, the site has gained about 400 positions and in March 2017. is ranked 504th in the Alexa popularity rankings.

9. Wolfram Alpha

A distinctive feature of this search is the variety of auxiliary services designed for queries related to certain knowledge. That is, in the search results you will not see links to posts on social networks or articles from the yellow press. You will be offered specific numbers and verified facts in the form of a single document. This browser is ideal for schoolchildren and students.

10. Yandex

Search engine, the most popular in Russia and the CIS countries. In addition, about 3% of the site's audience are residents of Germany. The site is notable for its large number of services for all occasions (music, radio, schedule public transport, real estate, translator, etc.) The resource also offers a large selection of individual website design, as well as customizing widgets. Yandex ranks 31st in the world in popularity, having lost 11 positions over the past year.