This is a list of the most popular search engines. If you have a website then make sure it is subscribed to all of them.
You can use this article as an inspiration what to use if you need to search for anything.
Google.com
No doubts this is the most used search engine. However do not fool yourself. You can’t find everything on Google. (or sometimes it may be almost impossible to find it in the amount of junk you can get in results)
If it is crucial for your business to have access to particular kind of data then you should think about getting paid access to specialized databases. (For example databases of financial situation of each company, media monitoring, etc.)
But for most of us Google is the best start when searching.
Other services: Mail, Images, Videos, News, Maps… and lots of useful applications for developers
Yahoo.com
Yahoo is another big search engine with a lot of users. Yahoo is not only search engine but it offers other services and applications. You can get most of them from Google, too.
You can vote in my survey if you are using Yahoo so we can see how many Yahoo funs is out there.
Other services: Mail, Images, Videos, News, Finance…and more
Cuil.com
Cuil.com is quite new search engine. It was first time introduced to public in July 2008. I am getting more and more visitors from this search engine to my websites so it looks like people are starting to use it.
The best thing about Cuil.com is that Cuil doesn’t keep data about you.
This is total difference from lets say Google, that keeps your personal data and then use it for marketing purposes and hell know for what else. This means that if you search on Google for particular services and articles, powerful algoritms on their servers are making profile about you so then you can be targeted with more effective marketing. You can see that company behind Cuil has their own view about doing business with search engines.
I personally like design of this portal so if you never tried it before then it may be the right time.
As mentioned before if you prefer searching without someone storing data about every your movement and creating your personal and psychological profiles then go for Cuil.com.
Other services: no, Cuil is search engine and nothing else
AOL.com
This search engine is partly owned by Google and if you have a look on AOL.com website you can see announcement that search is enhanced by Google. But AOL has its own indexes. AOL looks more like directory then search engine and for some people this is an enhancement, especially when they know category that contains what they need.
Other services: Mail, Images, Video, News, Finance…and more
Ask.com
Ask.com is another search engine with huge group of users.
Ask.com offers you feature called AskEraser to delete your searches from their servers. Another "nice to have" feature is that you can change skin if you do not like the default one.
Other services: Images, Video, News, Maps and Answers
msn.com
Msn is an information portal or collection of Internet services provided by well known company – Microsoft.
MSN is using the same search engine like Live.com Main difference between Msn and Live is that on Msn you have access to other information in "directory like" interface.
Msn as well as Live.com are starting with new search engine called Bing (since June 2009).
Bing is the answer to biggest competitors of Microsoft - Google and Yahoo.
Other services: Hotmail, Images, Video, News, Maps…and more
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