The Top 10+ Best Search Engines List | 2015
Comparison of search engines :-
| Search Engine | Company name | Pages indexed | Advertise ments | Daily direct queries | Queries count | Running non free JS | Software distribution license |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google.com | Over 62.1 billion | Yes | Over 412 million | Yes | No | Proprietary | |
| Bing.com | Microsoft | Over 30 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Yahoo Search | Yahoo! | Over 23 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Baidu Search | Baidu | Over 741 million | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Yandex Search | Yandex | Over 3.3 billion | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| SoSo | Tencent | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | No | No | Proprietary |
| DuckDuckGo | DuckDuckGo | NA | Optional | 8.7 million | No | No | Mixed |
| Gigablast | NA | Over 1 billion | No | Unknown | Yes | No | Free |
| Search engine | Server's location(s) | Https Support | Proxy gateway search links available | IP address tracking | Browser tracking | Information sharing | Dedicated servers |
| USA | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | |
| Bing | USA/China | Yes(SSL blocked in China) | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
| Yahoo search | USA | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
| Baidu | China & Japan | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | NA |
| Yandex | Russia | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | NA |
| SoSo | China | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | NA |
| DuckDuckGo | USA | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | NA |
| Gigablast | USA | No | No | No | No | No | NA |
List of Search Engines :-
| Rank | General Search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google.com | US, India, Brazil, UK | 1 | 1 | 71.76% | 10.09% | 180M | Multilingual |
| 2 | Yahoo.com | US, UK, France, India, Taiwan | 4 | 4 | 64.24% | 16.93% | 162M | Multilingual |
| 3 | Baidu.com | China | 5 | 10 | 62.59% | 7.99% | 1.6M | Multilingual |
| 4 | Bing.com | US, France | 26 | 14 | 68.76% | 4.85% | 70M | Multilingual |
| 5 | Sogou.com | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong | 122 | 583 | 48.37% | 32.17% | 400K | Chinese |
| 6 | Duckduckgo | US, France, UK, Germany | 488 | 403 | 94.33% | 1.98% | 1.6M | Multilingual |
| 7 | Youdao.com | China | 601 | 1,545 | 60.32% | 13.82% | 230K | Chinese |
| 8 | Yandex.com | Russia, Turkey, Germany, Ukraine | 2,168 | 1,844 | 61.23% | 13.24% | 550K | Multilingual |
| 9 | Go.com | US, Canada, Venezuela, UK | 78 | 113 | 63.32% | 16.90% | 51M | NA |
| 10 | Search.aol | US, UK, Germany, China | 151 | 95 | 67.43% | 7.33% | 20M | English |
| 11 | Lycos.com | US, UK, Canada, Germany | 9,169 | 13,887 | 50.35% | 20.91% | 360K | NA |
| 12 | Qwant.com | France, Germany, Belgium | 20,532 | 10,184 | 88.58% | 6.81% | NA | NA |
| Rank | General Search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
| Rank | Metasearch Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Webcrawler | US, India, Canada, Indonesia | 909 | 982 | 7.48% | 91.43% | 4.4M | English |
| 2 | kayak.com | US, Canada, Spain, Israel | 545 | 1,207 | 34.39% | 26.79% | 7M | Multilingual |
| 3 | Excite.com | US, Canada, UK, Germany | 7,989 | 8,501 | 64.02% | 11.12% | 500K | English |
| 4 | ixquick.com | US, Germany, France, Netherlands | 9,897 | 3,033 | 87.07% | 2.52% | 249K | Multilingual |
| 5 | Info.com | US, Canada, India, Malaysia | 8,179 | 10,016 | 13.15% | 87.36% | 1M | English |
| 6 | Zoo.com | Germany, Brazil, Mexico, India | 39,767 | 13,468 | 96.46% | 2.50% | 36K | NA |
| 7 | Yippy.com | US, UK, France, Canada | 127,309 | 212,761 | 41.51% | 1.03% | 24K | English |
| Rank | Metasearch Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users | Language |
| Rank | Job search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed.com | US, Canada, Australia, Germany | 160 | 201 | 36.07% | 40.71% | 18M |
| 2 | Naukri.com | India, Japan, United Arab Emirates | 428 | 1,114 | 54.78% | 23.55% | 120K |
| 3 | Glassdoor.com | US, India, Canada, UK | 509 | 1,317 | 34.47% | 43.05% | 10M |
| 4 | Monster.com | US, India, Canada, Philippines | 876 | 1,234 | 37.58% | 43.05% | 10M |
| 5 | Careerbuilder | US, Uk, India, Canada, Philippines | 1,565 | 1,786 | 47.90% | 20.20% | 6M |
| 6 | Jobstreet.com | Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore | 2,081 | 2,991 | 51.72% | 6.29% | 59K |
| 7 | careers.yahoo | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 8 | Incruit.com | Korea, Venezuela, Thailand | 2,342 | 3,211 | 19.19% | 67.68% | NA |
| 9 | Dice.com | US, India, Canada, Eritrea | 4,108 | 5,854 | 48.51% | 12.44% | 2.1M |
| 10 | Adzuna.co.uk | UK, US, Ireland, France | 18,476 | 22,570 | 38.68% | 29.65% | 144K |
| 11 | Eluta.ca | Canada, India, France | 49,675 | 57,090 | 29.33% | 51.58% | NA |
| 12 | Linkup.com | US, India, Canada, UK | 79,446 | 84,056 | 21.64% | 50.84% | 232K |
| Rank | Job search Engines | Popular in...? | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
| Rank | BitTorrent search Engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torrentz.eu | 181 | 453 | 64.80% | 20.23% | 2M |
| 2 | iSohunt.to | 3,612 | 1,934 | 35.28% | 34.83% | 400K |
| 3 | Btdigg.org | 9,511 | 6,506 | 64.93% | 17.14% | 64K |
| 4 | Mininova.org | 37,157 | 18,713 | 62.19% | 14.73% | 52K |
| 5 | Torrentus.si | 92,408 | 53,081 | 38.54% | 46.39% | NA |
| Rank | Question & Answer | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask.com | 35 | 26 | 89.81% | 5.10% | 20M |
| 2 | Quora.com | 152 | 492 | 32.92% | 57.67% | 8M |
| 3 | Answers.com | 327 | 243 | 14.66% | 52.48% | 24M |
| 4 | eHow.com | 667 | 1,482 | 11.60% | 85.69% | 16M |
| 5 | Wikihow.com | 189 | 349 | 9.85% | 90.72% | 8M |
| 6 | Answers.yahoo | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Rank | Maps Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bing maps | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2 | Google Maps | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 3 | Mapquest.com | 962 | 959 | 47.50% | 46.71% | 16M |
| 4 | Wikimapia.org | 2,466 | 1,021 | 24.33% | 70.50% | 460K |
| 5 | Here.com | 2,619 | 1,750 | 25.14% | 18.64% | 1M |
| 6 | Openstreetmap.org | 5,521 | 3,375 | 43.05% | 33.58% | 340K |
| Rank | News Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News.Google.com | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2 | Bing.com/news | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 3 | Topix.com | 1,118 | 1,551 | 27.03% | 36.51% | 4.1M |
| 4 | news.Yahoo.com | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 5 | Newslookup.com | 265,376 | 447,310 | 12.32 | 85.33 | NA |
| Rank | Real estate/ property Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zillow.com | 165 | 224 | 44.50% | 42.23% | 25.5M |
| 2 | Realtor.com | 489 | 827 | 42.21% | 40.70% | 10.5M |
| 3 | Rightmove.co.uk | 723 | 1,036 | 47.19% | 35.56% | 220K |
| 4 | Redfin.com | 993 | 1,971 | 55.70% | 28.59% | 2.8M |
| 5 | Hotpads.com | 5,965 | 4009 | 42.64% | 43.80% | 1.3M |
| Rank | Business Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justdial.com | 425 | 2,378 | 11.24% | 84.55% | 300K |
| 2 | Thomasnet.com | 12,578 | 28,923 | 18.95% | 71.37% | 558 |
| 3 | Globalspec.com | 18,125 | 27,228 | 16.50% | 77.99% | 440K |
| 4 | Business.com | 24,899 | 43,672 | 38.90% | 34.27% | 300K |
| 5 | Nexis.com | 68,125 | 53,701 | 52.97% | 6.45% | 60K |
| Rank | Multimedia Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Youtube.com | 3 | 3 | 46.61% | 21.26% | 160M |
| 2 | Bing videos | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 3 | Yahoo Video | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 4 | Tineye.com | 4,319 | 6,394 | 70.27% | 19.72% | 123K |
| 5 | Vevo.com | 5,943 | 5,666 | 47.00% | 31.75% | 1.1M |
| 6 | Blinkx.com | 38,298 | 6,897 | 14.09% | 2.48% | 300K |
| 7 | Findsounds.com | 147,423 | 69,334 | 26.03% | 50.44% | NA |
| Rank | Source code Search engines | Alexa rank | Similarweb rank | Direct traffic | Google traffic | US Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Code.Google.com | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 2 | Code.Openhub.net | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |