14 Alternative search engines

1. 3.Quora- it is better on answering more complicated questions, not be able to match the personal touch available with it. They will also offer their replies or you can choose from any similar queries prev. asked.

2. 4.Dogpile- you can cobbled together with clip-art, but that's rather the point as it pulls in and 'curates' results from various different engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo, but removes all the ads.

3. 5. Vimeo-the professional's choice of video-sharing sites,which has lots of HD video and no ads.

4. 7.Boardreader- surfaces results purely from forums, message boards and, of course, Reddit.

5. 9.IxQuick-it puts there users' privacy at the forefront with this engine none of your details are stored and no cookies are used the users can set preferences , but they will be deleted after 90 days of inactive.

6. 10.Ask.com-still a slightly mediocre search engine pretending to be a question and answer site,the 'Popular Q&A' results found at the right hand side .

7. 11.SlideShare- handy place to source information from presentations, slide decks, webinars and etc.

8. 12.Addict-o-matic- 'Inhale the web' with the friendly looking hoover guy by creating your own topic page, which you can bookmark and see results from a huge number of channels in that one page.

9. 13. Creative Commons Search- it is particularly handy if you need to find copyright free images for your website.

10. 14.Giphy- we could imagine a worse dystopian future than one in which we all communicate entirely in Gifs.

11. 1. Bing- is a serious contender to Google.- Video is significally better than Googles, it gives a large thumbnails and you can click play or preview if you hover over them.- Video is significally better than Googles, it gives a large thumbnails and you can click play or preview if you hover over them.-It gives twice as many autocomplete suggestions

12. 2. DuckDuckGo-it doesn't retain its user's data, so it won't track you or manipulate results based on your behaviour.

13. 6. Yandex-a Russian portal, offering many similar products and services as Google, and its dominant search engine in Russia, they offers results a nice logical format, replete with favicons so you can clear see the various channels for your branded queries.

14. 8.WolframAlpha-it is a computational knowledge engine or super clever nerd to you and me. it calculate any data or ask about any fact and it will give the answer.Plus it does this awesome 'computing' thing while it thinks about your answer it can take a short while. Its not always successful, you have to practice how to get the best from it.