Top 10 Search Engines

Here’s my list of Top 10 Search Engines.

1. Google
   
   
   

   Hands down to this one. I guess no one would argue that Google is the best search engine out there. It’s simplicity, accuracy and quick search results make this my top pick. To know more about this search engine, visit this page.



2. Yahoo!
   
   
   

   I’ve been a Yahoo! Mail user since 2000, but since we’re talking about search engines here, Yahoo! only falls second to Google. I remember though in the early stages of the internet that Yahoo! was more known than Google. To know more about this search engine, visit this page.



3. Bing
   



Bing is a search engine owned by Microsoft, which was formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search. To know more about this search engine, visit this page.



4. Ask
   
   
   

   Ask (known as Ask Jeeves in the UK) is a search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions (Content taken from wikipedia). To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


5. AOL
   
   
   

   AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as “Aol.”, is an American global Internet services and media company (Content taken from wikipedia). To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


6. AllTheWeb
   
   
   

   AlltheWeb had a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look. In February 2003 Fast’s web search division was bought by Overture. In March 2004 Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!. Shortly after Yahoo!’s acquisition, the AlltheWeb site started using Yahoo!’s database and some of the advanced features were removed, such as FTP search (Content take from wikipedia).
   To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


7. HotBot
   
   
   

   HotBot is one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. It was launched using a “new links” strategy of marketing, claiming to update its search database more often than its competitors (Content take from wikipedia).
   To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


8. Altavista
   
   
   

   AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google (Content take from wikipedia).
   To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


9. Lycos
   
   
   

   Lycos is a search engine and web portal established in 1994. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites (Content take from wikipedia).
   To know more about this search engine, visit this page.

   
   


10. GigaBlast
    
    
    

    Founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages with the least amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology for partner sites (Content taken from aboutus.org).
    To know more about this search engine, visit this page.