14 Alternatives to Google

1. DuckDuckGo

1.1. Private search history

1.2. doesn’t collect or store any of your personal information

2. Wolfram|Alpha

2.1. a computational knowledge engine which gives facts and data for number of topics from externally sourced ‘curated data’, instead of caching web pages

2.2. can do all sorts of calculations, from as simple as addition to complex calculus and statistics

3. SlideShare

3.1. a really handy place to source information from presentations, slide decks, webinars

4. Dogpile

4.1. it pulls in and ‘curates’ results from various different engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo

5. Blekko

5.1. uses an initiative called slashtags – a text tag preceded by a “/” slash character, which may be used for custom and categorized searches

6. Swisscows

6.1. one of the more unique options on this list, billing itself as a family-friendly semantic search engine

7. CC Search

7.1. particularly handy if you need to find copyright free images for your website

7.2. a search aggregator offering access to search results provided by a number of independent organizations

8. Bing

8.1. a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft

8.2. the third largest search engine globally

8.3. provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products

9. Yahoo

9.1. a web search engine owned by Yahoo

9.2. it is the second largest search engine worldwide across all platforms with 2.32% market share

9.3. handy features include travel guide, horoscope, weather report, retail options and handful more

10. Quora

10.1. Ask any question and its erudite community will offer their replies

10.2. can choose from any similar queries previously asked

11. Yandex

11.1. This is a Russian portal, offering many similar products and services as Google

11.2. offers results in a nice logical format

11.3. it offers a suite of some pretty cool tools

12. Ecosia

12.1. an environmentally friendly search engine

12.2. uses the revenues generated from search engine queries to plant trees

12.3. needs around 45 searches to plant a new tree

13. Boardreader

13.1. surfaces results purely from forums, message boards and, of course, Reddit

14. Ask.com

14.1. a slightly mediocre search engine pretending to be a question and answer site

14.2. the ‘Popular Q&A’ results found on the right hand side are very handy