COVER STORY
WE GOOGLED ALL THESE
Google may be the most popular, but it isn’t the only search engine out there.
Many other players live up to the tasks that Google might not do for you...Bing is perhaps the second most popular
search engine. Powered by Microsoft, Bing
has almost all the bling that Google
offers, although it is unlikely that Bing is
going to dethrone Google. It is definitely worth a try.DuckDuckGo is the first choice of
incognito users. DuckDuckGo doesn’t
collect browsing history, social media
profiles or emails to give you
personalised search results, unlike Google.
Also ad spam is much less than Google.Like DuckDuckGo, Ixquick
takes privacy issues
seriously. No cookies, no
prying into search history.
It collects no userspecific details.
It is supported in 17 different
languages and serves around six
million queries a day.Yahoo used to power its own
web search until recently.
Now that it has partnered up
with Microsoft, it uses Bing
search results for its web engine.
Yahoo Finance is by far the best
financial news aggregator
currently available.
Yandex is the most popular in Russia and
fourth largest globally. Founded in 1997, it
serves over 150 million search queries a
day. From mail to maps, Yandex provides
almost every service that Google does and
facilitates crosslingual searches.China’s Google, Baidu
search engine in China that lets web is the largest
searches in Chinese languages and
Japanese. Baidu has indexed almost a
billion web pages along with more than
80 million images and 10 million
multimedia files.$749,160,000,000
The market cap of Alphabet (Google’s parent company)5,500,000,000
That’s the number of search requests on Google every day. The
company doesn’t officially release the data, so some estimates
peg the number at over 2 trillion.Developed by ex
Googlers, Blekko’s
unique interface serves
results by category—
slashtags, a /slash character precedes the
text just like #hashtags in Twitter, to
search in its database. It calls itself a
spamfree search engine.WolframAlpha is a
computational
knowledge engine
that gives facts and
data for wide
ranging topics from externally sourced
‘curated data’, instead of caching web
pages. It tends to the needs of the
knowledgehungry kid.34 OUTLOOK 22 July 2019
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