Alternative search engines

Posted on 22 December 2022

With over 90% share of the market, Google is the undisputed leader of the search engines. There are however other search engines that are worth exploring to get a different perspective of the web.

Bing

With less than 3% share Bing Search is the second most popular search engine, and powers some alternative search engines (such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo Search).

Yandex

Yandex Search is popular in the russian speaking world.

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo Search is a privacy-oriented search, and is based on Bing.

Mojeek

Mojeek Search is based in the UK and has its own index.

Marginalia Search is a specialized search engine that favors text-heavy sites that use simple html markup.

Yep

https://yep.com/ is a search engine by Ahrefs

https://search.brave.com/

AI Search Engines

Phind

https://phind.com/ for developers

iAsk

https://iask.ai/

Specialized search engines

Grep.app

https://grep.app/ searches code from github

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/

Elicit

https://elicit.org/ searches research papers